What Really Happened at the Bikes and Beards WLDR Drag Race!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- After rebuilding Bikes and Beard's WLDR engine, we roll it on the lift to get it running and prepped for our epic drag race!
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So great seeing everyone genuinely giddy as hell having fun.
Two of my favorite motorcycle channels together! Love it. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Heck, three!
Old Harleys are why folks still love them. Thank you guys for keeping the heritage alive. Best part is watching Sean lose because freaking Sean! Thanks Matt. Hell yes!
The ingredients, knowledge, lessons, experiences, the list of what it takes goes on. To be apart of history like this would only feel better if I(we)were there ! Another incredible job gentlemen !
Great points, but you left out FUN. All smiles & a thumb.
Sean is a really good guy as far as I can tell, and he seems like he'd be a solid friend to have as well.
Is cool seeing the two versions
WHAT A FUN RACE.....Thanks Matt & Shan 👍
Old Flying Shoe🇺🇸
Dale is looking down, smiling!
Matt, you’re doing it right!
Sean was trying to give you back a moment with your father. God sees it all!
If you haven’t been to Maggie Valley Wheels through Time you have to go. Beautiful town and unbelievable museum. Take a friend!
So awesome that the Junk Yard WLDR is back to fighting form and that you guys played such a big roll in it.
These guys literally rode it the day they brought it, it only neeeded a mechanic resto these guys destroyed a beautiful piece of race history
@ratbastard2028 how did they?
That bike came out awesome. To see these pieces of history make noise is amazing. My grandfather had a 1950s Indian. Always loved it. Never had a chance to ride it though.
Itvhas a lot if character for a water pump
That was amazing. Its on my bucketlist to visit the museum one day. All of you guys are amazing people and it would be an honor and a privilege to meet you one day Matt..
Quality collaboration! Really enjoyed watching all different videos of the WLDR.
Mortarss, yes absolutely. Loved this collaboration.
They just needed Billy Lane
I watched the Bikes and Beards video yesterday and this one today. Great stuff. Loved the races AND SMOKING THE TIRE!! On an almost 100 year old bike, Holy Shit that was awesome.
Worked for Fletcher's H-D back in the '70's, early '80's. Bob Fletcher the owner actually raced a WLDR on the beach in Daytona, he ran a 'Cheater motor', raced as Mother Fletchers race team.
Lot's of goog stories and pictures.
R.I.P. Bob, good guy, good friend.
Legend!
Love that color. You guys definitely living the dream.
My Dad rode the WLA as a courier for a brief time during WWII. I have a couple of pictures of him on his Harley. To see these old period bikes get rebuilt and restored is fantastic. Maybe one day when I go back to visit my birth state of NC I’ll visit the museum…
So wonderfull to see the dirt bike brought even more joy then the old rare Harley.
That was a fun video. Super cool to have all these toys at your disposal to share the fun and play with.
Made my day seeing this authentic joy.
I've watched the starting of the bike on all three channels and it never gets old 👌
I’m a biker. Since 16 years old. I’m now 75 and I’m still riding. Had a Harley sportster in 1977 in the Uk when H.D. was produced by AMF.
Watching the enthusiasm these guys have is inspiring to me. Thanks.
you guy's crack me up. well done my young friend
Everything about this video is awesome. Cheers to you and your dad, he was a true American icon! Sean, great gift and you held your own! One of the best videos I’ve watched in quite some time!
WOW! Just incredible! I love to see those old machines run like they were built to run.
Love it! It’s great to see these bikes get ridden. You guys should take some road trips and show what these bikes can still do.
That's a great idea.... although, given the rarity of these machines the insurance is going to be steep.
Two beautiful machines
I had to watch all three videos of this. Obsessed with this bike, too badass
Matt. You reeled him in like a pro sir. Great fun to watch and glad you got his bike sorted. Reckon there should definitely should be a rematch!!
I am so glad you won. Congratulations .
Now that was a blast to watch! Great job all!
Great video 👍 Can't wait for the rematch. 👍👍
I'm looking forward to the next race! Great video!
I love seeing old machines living again doing what they were born for I will own a flathead one day in my opinion they are the most beautiful Harley Davidson engine ever made
Very cool video Matt, great to see you and Sean having fun racing those two beautiful bikes 😎👍👍
Something about big fins all over everything, that just gets me excited!
That’s great just watched this on the other two channels, great job well sorted.
I had wondered what happened to this race. Great to see it finally happen. Looks like fun for all there.
Pure fun, love the older HD’s getting after it!
this has been one of my most favorite TH-cam collaborations ever!! Such an epic series and an epic ending. Loved every minute of it and I can't wait to visit DWTT in Maggie Valley .....Carolina!
This is the best channel on TH-cam
This is probably the most wholesome video I have watched in a while.
Real life goals right here
Now THAT was a fun watch!
What a treat, thanks for recording and sharing!
Probably the best video yet and I love them all. Great bikes and lots of fun. Nice job on the restoration but to be honest I would have kept it a dirty as possible as I prefer that look. Great job guys
That was an incredible team effort and really fun to watch.
Good racing guys! Looks like a hell of alot of fun! A rematch is definetely in order.
Aww man! This makes me miss the days when I was an apprentice at Rocky's Harley Davidson in London, Ontario, Canada in 1989-1990. Those folks were a good crew. They trusted me to rewire a 1967 FL generator Shovel that had been used to chase cows in the field. It fired right up, and I was proud of that. Still am. Now I'm in Japan Japan
,,,now I'm in Japan with no bike, no tools, and I'm bored as can be. Thanks for sharing the good times, fellers!
It's really awesome y'all are doing content together. Even better to see these beautiful machines in motion. Racing them was their original purpose, great video guys, love to see if Bikesand Beards comes thru with a rematch. ?
I absolutely love that!! That was some fun!!
Mat has deffinitely inherited racing genes from his dad!!
Possibly the toughest guy to beat with a 45 on the planet!!
Supercool!! Thank you guys!!
Popsicles and people having fun makes for a great episode...
So good i had to watch it on all three channels back to back :)
LOL on ending the video revealing the "cheater motor" hahaha. Great video guys. I'm subscribed to all three of you, so it's good to see you creating content for us together.
The old red Harley is perhaps the most beautiful Bike Ive ever laid my eyes on, wow. just wow.
That roller bearing engine is a beast. It's all good, it gives you guys another challenge. 😇
My last trip up to see you in June was moonsooned out. We made it to Spruce Pine, held up for a couple days of solid rain and decided to ride back home. 226A, water sheeting off the mountain and Marion had probably 3"-4" of standing water. It was an adventure.... We are hoping to try again in early Sept.
Bro this is awesome, putting these bikes to do what they're meant for! Actual drag racing between H-D legends..
Was at the museum last Thursday and it was really cool to see the WD200 sitting outside.
Real bikes, Real beards and Real fun! Living the dream on our behalf :)
Give me old school anyday What a team! W.T.T. AND B@B'S what a great video. Like minded people doing what they love working racing talking and living the motorcycle life!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND MAY HE KEEP YOU SAFE IN HIS LOVING HANDS🌩️🌩️🌩️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😁👍👍👍👍
Great to watch you guys having fun. Getting serious though...who can eat an ice pole the fastest? 😂
And the saga continues. I love it.
My man Matt munching on the Kool Pops. Good show guys. Keep the good stuff coming.
Pretty obvious we need to see a rematch now that Sean's bike is working!
I say..... do it at Sons of Speed! Sell Team Matt and Team Sean shirts/hats and support a charity or two with the proceeds! (make sure each team is an official harley color combo from the era)
Sean impressed me for a guy who took a long ride on a WRDL before this I don't think I could have done much better and I have quite a few years of drag racing bikes under my belt.
Especially considering that was all with a stiff primary chain.
A Win - Win whenever you can get 2 Classics like those WLDR's racing
From 1995 to 2001 I owned a 45 ci flathead that I built off of a 1952 or earlier rolling chassis with a factory springer that had been nicely chromed before I got the bike, an 18 inch front, 16 inch rear wheel, OEM tanks, no front fender, and a modified/ after market FL style rear fender, Bates head light, Bates small solo seat with springs, stock transmission with gated tank shifter, suicide clutch and all powered by a 1953 G model Servicar engine with the large finned 5.75:1 aluminu heads and a 30 mm Mikuni round slide. It was fun, it was also my primary transportation fo a few years along with racing it in a 45 Solo class at the Harley drags. Needing ,ore speed to run 28 miles each way to work and weekend rides of around 100 miles with my Motorcycle club I bought engine and transmission output sprockets for the highest speed possible and after blowing the rear piston into 3 pieces, splitting the big end of the rear rod into a Y shape, and breaking the leftside flywheel in two resulting in a siezure so severe that the now locked drivetrain was so bound up that depressing the clutch had no effect and I skidded off the interstate 35 south and into tall weeds that slowed me down and then stopped me without ever falling down. It also split the back of thr transmission case. I went to a local shop where I knew the owner had been buying up 45 flathead stuf at every opportunity and had pallets of engine and transmission parts (enough engine parts to assemble 75 theoretically running engines) where after some discussion and planning and some struggles with my wallet I was able to purchase a set of WLDR cylinders already freshly bored and sized to a new set of forged pistons, all the rings, gaskets, etc... plus a NOS transmission case with bearings installed, an intake manifold to match the big ports, and my aluminum heads decked to provide 6.25:1 compression. I then acquired a Joe Hunt Magneto, a Kehein butterfly carb that I fabbed an adapter to mount up, a set of Big Twin rockers for the springer with a panhead era front hub and brake assembly laced into a 21 inch front wheel and tire. I pulled the valves and did some minor porting, did a repaint Black) with a new rear fender (flat 6 inch wide trailer fender with the "Duck tail" rear tip and a reproduction Sparto tail light and a Bates style P pad, the skinny one about 3 inches wide, 8 inches long, and 2 inches tall at one end, 4 inches at the other end. It was all kind of built to resemble a poster of an orange WR flat tracker that I used to have hanging in my bedroom. This bike was very quick for a 45ci street ridden HD and had decent top end considering its origins at 80 mph. After Harley Davidson Motor Company decided to no longer have a remote R&D test facility in Lytle Texas (I was a technician that maintained test bikes and installed test parts etc...) and my wife said she really divnot want to move to Talladega Alabama so I could continue as a tech at that test facility I went to work at the HD dealership in San Antonio. I had just gotten a 1990 FXR as primary transportation and parked the 45 with intent tovbuild it even better. Unfortunately my FXR developed some problems including the eft side Timken bearings oil transfer between primary drive and crankcase. I got Harley to send free warranty cases but I wanted to do more while I had it apart, but I also had to do it all quickly since I was in a borroed car. This meant I needed parts money now and I made a decision I still regret, I sold the 45 to a friend who promised to give me first rihhts to purchase should he decide to sell it. He did not keep his promise snd I no longer have a clue where my old 45 is.
Awesome is all I can say!
Simply awesome!
I bought a 37 WL in southern Illinois in 1977, had no primary chain. Got ten feet of #35 chain, cut it in three pieces and used one piece to get it up to Chicago, and then replaced it, and rode it to Cherry Point, NC. I sold it a couple years later when i got married, I really miss that bike. The WL's were cheap back then, I think I paid seven hundred bucks for it.
Looks like I'm going to take my bike out for a (spirited ride) today.
Thanks.
YOU GUYS!!! This vid so reminded me of me and my pals fooling around in our day. Thanks.
Oh dude that was so awesome to watch. Two awesome guys riding awesome bikes. ❤❤
That’s was a awesome race
I can't imagine that the young lions who raced these bikes years ago would have ever imagined that some boys with the same spirit would be racing them in 2023! :P
Great video guys something a little different.. and the bikes looked great!
One of the greatest videos you've done.. what a super format, loved it and bringing my boys down from PA!!!
You guys having that much fun,is worth more than all those bikes put together ,, awesome ,love old school iron !
Matt, it sure looks like you were playing with him the whole time. 😂😂
Yup I thought so too.
“The museum that runs” WIDE OPEN! 👍
Love your channel!!
I love that place and add Shaun to it as well Matt is such a good dude
Awesome show! Thanks guys…
Something told me you'd bring a ringer Matt . Still some good racing.
Awesome video. Watched with a big smile.
That was awesome to watch, seeing these bike in action & what they were build for, what a lot of fun, Sean been call out by Matt 😊,
for a rematch look forward to the next race, thanks guy's absolutely amazing
Good to see Matt with you haven't seen in awhile love them Rad bikes love the motor flat-head buddy ok thank you for sharing it guys later ❤
Best video ever. Absolutely loved it
Having watched the three different perspectives from the three different channels.. interesting how the other people act, or react when it's not their channel I have found this in other channels also. 😁😁
No 2nd place here. Everyone involved was winning, big time!
Great Machines, great Guys !
Those harlys cracked louder than lightning through a wet dog 😊
Best vid of the three
Awesome.. thanks guys…
Nice work
The only thing that could make this episode even more epic is to include Billy Lane 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
His knowledge and charisma would fit right in
Love racing red. Reminds me of my Hemi orange/ Tored Mopar. Has that red and orange in it. So cool! My favorite bike! Good job bros keep it up.
I love it! Great video! Great story! Great guys!
So cool. I am deforest coming to your museum all the way from jersey.
I would love to see these guys do more stuff together