About 10 years ago I was helping my dad clear out his loft and we were going through some old photos. There was a photo of my Mum sitting on a motorbike with Barry at Silverstone.
Back in 1982 Keith Code wrote a Go Fast road racing book called, A Twist of the Wrist, where Keith offered a metaphor suggesting that, The Human brain offers a rider $10 of cognitive function, if you waste $8 on being Fearful, you're only left with $2 for going fast. When I put that statement in perspective, my mind went calm and my pace increased, cutting full seconds off my track times. I also formed a new sense of confidence that naturally moved me up front and I began winning races. I'm reminded of Codes philosophy for going fast, every time I watch Kenny. "The King" race. He's never rushed or in a hurry and he never forces himself into making an early mistake. He patently sits back letting the tires warm, evaluating the conditions of the track and the competition ..before calmly moving to the front and winning this race ...while Fast Freddy finished 2nd but eventually won the 1983 500cc MotoGP Championship.
One of the best books I ever invested in. All common sense methods of training your brain to UNDERSTAND racing a motorcycle. Knowledge does make you go faster...and with less risk. Win all round in my book. Book applies to the weekend tourist road scratcher as well. Info is transferable, as it deals primarily with defeating the track/road...rather than other riders. Learning race craft, is another aspect altogether.
高校の帰り、倉賀野の地味な雑貨店に何故か専門誌が置いてあって、ふと手に取ると惹き込まれて気付けばバイクに目覚めていたあの頃… バイク雑誌を全部読み漁り、この年は500ccクラスが最も熱い年で、両雄譲らず最終戦へ…って表紙を飾っていたのを今も思い出す🙁 Very Most Hot Hot Season!! Field of dreams!!!! バイクには孤独なロマンが……
A very young and very talented guy he was too. It was a tragic accident and, from what I remember of what was reported at the time, one that really shouldn't have happened. No blame to either rider as far as I remember. RIP Norman and Peter
At this point it was pass its age . Every one was moving to a V four configuration . I was at Skerries a few weeks before Norman Brown was killed . He won the race
I was at Stowe that day and can see the collision now with both riders flying through the air after an explosion of a collision. Norman Brown had his hand up and cruising after a bike failure but was on the racing line with the pack on his tail.
I quit watching GP, or now WSB or whatever they call it, the day they dropped 2 strokes. Those racers were the best, to take a 300 pound 150-170hp 2 stroke 500cc bike with a power band of maybe 3000 rpm with a kick of a mule, and to dance them at those speeds. Those racres were the best to ever ride at the top level. I know the racers of today are great but I doubt more than one or 2 could ride those 500cc 2 strokes as well as the greats of that era. The throttle control, the ability to steer with the throttle, amazing. A few who raced the 500 c GP bikes who moved to the 4 strokes said the 4 strokes are so much easier to control due to the power band and power delivery. To control those old 500's took the skill of a brain surgeon, maybe 3-4 could do it at the bikes limits, Roberts, Spencer Mamola, Lawson Doohan later on.. Those men in their prime could wipe the floor with rossi in his prime, no doubt in my mind.Those bikes had more hard hitting power, less suspension, less tire grip yet they rode the wheels off of them. AHH to me the best road racing ever to be seen was that era. Todays is like stock car racing, it is all about the bikes not the riders, so little real passing and side by side racing. Now the guy on the top Honda bike walks away and wins due to their bikes being the superior bike 9 out of 10 times.
Yawn, what utter bollocks you've written, you old duffer. Fast is fast, and the top riders of each era would be able to ride anything they put them on.
Joe Veitch you get the same stories from old men reminiscing about british foorball, back in e day we knew how to play blah blah, yet in this video you hear the commentator saying the fastest stretch of the race at silverstone is 160 mph but today that same stretch is probably around 220
@patchma What business is it of yours how he lived.He, we lived free back then. Look around, What's the gradual nanny state of rules, endless regulations, communist dictating what, when, where we can't do. Slowly destroying people's lives. You were called nosy cnuts back then. Mind your own fckunig business.
The knee gets put out as a guide so the rider knows how far his bike is leaned over. Many riders will slightly raise the knee just after it touches. Riders have also saved a crash by holding the bike up with their knee until they can get the front tire back under them.
I was at the race that year and watched from Copse. Usually I watched from the mighty Stowe Corner and I am glad I didn't this time. King Kenny and Fast Freddie were both brilliant.
This is by far and above the best, most competitive and most dangerous to ride era of Grand Prix racing. And how appropriate, not if an American would win but which one.
It was dreadful after Barry won 2 x 500cc World Championships that all the Japanese works manufacturers never offered him works rides, instead giving those rides to mainly the Americans and Australians…..and snubbed Barry.
It was just explained to you that the US riders weren't familiar with the British caution flags. And if you bothered to pay attention to the entirety of the clip, you would discover that a slowed-down Kenny Roberts was angrily gesturing at officials to put out the red flag.
Hate it when blokes like you wishing it was still 1976 hate on those of today. In a motorcycle GP riders sense, todays riders are faster, fitter and have more pressure to perform. How anyone can say those men aren't "men" is beyond me
Wrong! You can shift your weight without dragging a knee...it gives the rider a better feeling for lean angle. If you're going to use "big" words like centrifugal then use your spell-checker for crying out loud! Cheers!
@@thurney4343 He's not wrong, he just not 100% correct. The first point is weight change and a secondary result was that the knee was closer to the ground. If you research how this came to be you will understand. There are interviews of Kenny Roberts describing how this, his riding style, came to be. He describes how he was coping another rider who was shifting his weight in his seat to the inside and was cornering really fast. Kenny feeling a limitation to his own style, tried the technique and noticed that it made his bike corner better. He then went further with the technique and found out that it continued to improve cornering. The fact that he got to dragging his knee was just a result of moving the weight/body position to the inside. And back in those days with the limits of tire adhesion that was about as far as the bike could go.
Vernon Cooper's finest hour, the vile, odious little man, had no regard for riders safety. considering he was Clerk of Course. The ACU in those days was run as a old boys club
I final understand the 'reason' for the 'GP starts'. If the engines weren't turned off while at the starting grid, everyone would have passed out, due to the fumes, lol!
@@splash5974 Murray Walker was a motorcycle racing commentator long before he worked on F1 as was his father Graham, who was a very successful motorcycle racer including winning the Manx TT, with whom he jointly commentated early in his career. Murray also raced motorcycles.
All riders including any foreigners should be briefed before racing what flag signals are to show a race stop situation nowadays all flag posts show red flags them days just Clerk of Course on startline
@@westers1514 It's call a riders meeting and the fact that they either didn't have one or explain the flags is kind of scary. What's odd here it that Kenny and other US riders had been racing abroad for several years at this point and how the long formed ACU could drop the ball here is nuts!
Spencer was an interesting character. Little known fact, he wouldn’t race unless he could attend church on race day. Was also a guy that hated competing with any injuries at all.
Actually Spencer is at pains to point out in his autobiography that the religious nut stuff was an invention of the press. I'd bet all racers also hate competing with any injuries at all.
@lMisterMeaner Huber (i think), was slowing down right in the middle of the pack because his bike stalled, an unsighted Norman Brown plowed into the back of him at a very high speed.
Love the push start.. anyway here's a novel idea let's go back to this.. we can have a separate class for it... Only the best riders will race to the top without all these electronic AIDS and tech people and a computer guy you get where I'm going let's go back to basics
No disrespect to the riders who were killed, but look at the "safety" barriers. Hay bales? A wall that barely covers pit lane? I know racing in the past was hazardous and there were many questionable tracks, but Silverstone is supposed to be the birthplace of motorsport. And then to top it off how disgusting it was, the Australian rider is lighting a cigarette. It's a good to know that things have improved a lot in 30 years.
In the 70's and 80's that was racing just like car racing, safety was not like today. Riders died on a regular basis, it was just that way back then. new technology safer tracks etc make it safer today like all forms of racing. Before bashing it remember all forms of racing did not get safe over night, it took years and trial and error in safety equipment track lay out etc before it got to where riders and drivers did not die every season. It is no different than the cars for the street of that error, safety was still in its infancy. Do not bash just realize it was what it was. Look back to the 50's and 60's, half shell helmets , no leathers racing on real roads, now that was crazy but that was what happens until the sport grows and makes tracks and develops safety barriers and riding gear.
...Mate... Barry was a Pommy but was a much loved legend in Australia..He liked a smoke but that hardly makes him disgusting. It was sad day for Australians when he died...but not from cigarettes.
@@sugarnads You've just lost any right to criticise because entering a discussion like a highly abusive 10 year old will get your ramblings dismissed just like that by any self respecting adult.... F'ing this, f'ing that, and the constructive part of your comment is where?????
This is my childhood right there. Watching it with my late father
Barry Sheene. Total gentleman, sorely missed. Top top man!
RIP brother.
John Pirie here, here.👍
About 10 years ago I was helping my dad clear out his loft and we were going through some old photos. There was a photo of my Mum sitting on a motorbike with Barry at Silverstone.
Thanks for the memories!!!!.. Fantastic BARRY SHEENE!!!! 🏆🏆🏆
Back in 1982 Keith Code wrote a Go Fast road racing book called, A Twist of the Wrist, where Keith offered a metaphor suggesting that, The Human brain offers a rider $10 of cognitive function, if you waste $8 on being Fearful, you're only left with $2 for going fast. When I put that statement in perspective, my mind went calm and my pace increased, cutting full seconds off my track times. I also formed a new sense of confidence that naturally moved me up front and I began winning races.
I'm reminded of Codes philosophy for going fast, every time I watch Kenny. "The King" race. He's never rushed or in a hurry and he never forces himself into making an early mistake. He patently sits back letting the tires warm, evaluating the conditions of the track and the competition ..before calmly moving to the front and winning this race ...while Fast Freddy finished 2nd but eventually won the 1983 500cc MotoGP Championship.
One of the best books I ever invested in. All common sense methods of training your brain to UNDERSTAND racing a motorcycle. Knowledge does make you go faster...and with less risk. Win all round in my book. Book applies to the weekend tourist road scratcher as well. Info is transferable, as it deals primarily with defeating the track/road...rather than other riders. Learning race craft, is another aspect altogether.
I remember that series of books think there were 4 in the series
I attended the Keith Code school in 1997, Seattle WA. Effective.
Race stopped when Huber crashed into a slowing Norman Brown.
Brown died instantly, Huber was airlifted to hospital and died later.
高校の帰り、倉賀野の地味な雑貨店に何故か専門誌が置いてあって、ふと手に取ると惹き込まれて気付けばバイクに目覚めていたあの頃…
バイク雑誌を全部読み漁り、この年は500ccクラスが最も熱い年で、両雄譲らず最終戦へ…って表紙を飾っていたのを今も思い出す🙁
Very Most Hot Hot Season!!
Field of dreams!!!!
バイクには孤独なロマンが……
R.I.P to Norman Brown and Peter Huber, who died at that race. :/
TheMan, The Myth, The........wait for it.. LEGENDARY KENNY ROBERTS!!! Born in 58 so definitely a fan of him and his style.
love it @ 19:50 barry just lights a ciggy as hes being interviewed and fans can get near them to ask for autographs
Joey Dunlop was that type of guy too.. 2 down to earth legends. 🍀🇮🇪
paddock rules were very different in those days
Thank you for posting this and the explanation of what happened.
That was a sad race that year My neighbor was killed at that grand prix his name was NORMAN BROWN a very young man.
Don't get the outcome though
A very young and very talented guy he was too. It was a tragic accident and, from what I remember of what was reported at the time, one that really shouldn't have happened. No blame to either rider as far as I remember. RIP Norman and Peter
A great man and talented rider from Newry !
10:53 *The Square 4 Suzuki was indeed a formidable Machine*
At this point it was pass its age . Every one was moving to a V four configuration . I was at Skerries a few weeks before Norman Brown was killed . He won the race
I was at Stowe that day and can see the collision now with both riders flying through the air after an explosion of a collision. Norman Brown had his hand up and cruising after a bike failure but was on the racing line with the pack on his tail.
🥀
God speed Norman and Peter.😪
I quit watching GP, or now WSB or whatever they call it, the day they dropped 2 strokes. Those racers were the best, to take a 300 pound 150-170hp 2 stroke 500cc bike with a power band of maybe 3000 rpm with a kick of a mule, and to dance them at those speeds. Those racres were the best to ever ride at the top level. I know the racers of today are great but I doubt more than one or 2 could ride those 500cc 2 strokes as well as the greats of that era. The throttle control, the ability to steer with the throttle, amazing. A few who raced the 500 c GP bikes who moved to the 4 strokes said the 4 strokes are so much easier to control due to the power band and power delivery. To control those old 500's took the skill of a brain surgeon, maybe 3-4 could do it at the bikes limits, Roberts, Spencer Mamola, Lawson Doohan later on.. Those men in their prime could wipe the floor with rossi in his prime, no doubt in my mind.Those bikes had more hard hitting power, less suspension, less tire grip yet they rode the wheels off of them. AHH to me the best road racing ever to be seen was that era. Todays is like stock car racing, it is all about the bikes not the riders, so little real passing and side by side racing. Now the guy on the top Honda bike walks away and wins due to their bikes being the superior bike 9 out of 10 times.
Yawn, what utter bollocks you've written, you old duffer. Fast is fast, and the top riders of each era would be able to ride anything they put them on.
300 lbs 150-170 HP?More like 230 LBs 185-200 HP,at least just before the switch to 4 strokes.
Joe Veitch you get the same stories from old men reminiscing about british foorball, back in e day we knew how to play blah blah, yet in this video you hear the commentator saying the fastest stretch of the race at silverstone is 160 mph but today that same stretch is probably around 220
Mr Rossi was a world champion on 500 two strokes.
@@Fabformcatering 250 and 125 2 strokes as well.
Silverston was such a fast circuit!
All circuits are fast Sir Pat, you only need to fuck up to realize how fast they actually are...Voice of experience.
@@geoffheard5768 Silverstone back then was faster than Monza and Hockenheim
@@geoffheard5768 Silverstone was the fastest GP circuit in the world back then.
19:56 completely and utterly unthinkable in this day and age!
It proved to be fatal.
Lighting up....
pachma No, Barry didn’t die from smoking.
@patchma
What business is it of yours how he lived.He, we lived free back then.
Look around, What's the gradual nanny state of rules, endless regulations, communist dictating what, when, where we can't do. Slowly destroying people's lives.
You were called nosy cnuts back then. Mind your own fckunig business.
The knee gets put out as a guide so the rider knows how far his bike is leaned over. Many riders will slightly raise the knee just after it touches. Riders have also saved a crash by holding the bike up with their knee until they can get the front tire back under them.
Mikecamrc, the knee touching is secondary, it's about the riders center of gravity being to the inside the bikes.
Loved King Kenny, the main man! Good to see a young Eddie Lawson or a younger Eddie I should say
Had a laugh at Barry lighting up a smoke during the interview.
habitual smoker...had a hole cut in his helmet because he couldn't go long without one.
haha same crackup but straight up
Very nostalgic viewing. I was in Woodcote grandstand for that race and remember it well.
I was at the race that year and watched from Copse. Usually I watched from the mighty Stowe Corner and I am glad I didn't this time. King Kenny and Fast Freddie were both brilliant.
One of the few times you had 2 guys at that skill level at the same time, they pushed each other to the limits.
I was watching the race on TV that day,real sad day
This is by far and above the best, most competitive and most dangerous to ride era of Grand Prix racing. And how appropriate, not if an American would win but which one.
My hero Norman Brown died that day 😢
Barry lights up a cigarette during an interview!!!! Awesomeness 👍🏼😎
The good old times.
It eventually came back to bite him,in the end.
It was dreadful after Barry won 2 x 500cc World Championships that all the Japanese works manufacturers never offered him works rides, instead giving those rides to mainly the Americans and Australians…..and snubbed Barry.
It was just explained to you that the US riders weren't familiar with the British caution flags. And if you bothered to pay attention to the entirety of the clip, you would discover that a slowed-down Kenny Roberts was angrily gesturing at officials to put out the red flag.
Thanks for sharing the vids 👍🏻😎
2:56 The guy that dies during the race.. sad (#46)
when men were men and traction contol was in your wrist NOT in the electronics like today's girls on 4 strokes
lol Moto 2 bikes with 130hp are faster and zero electronics. Moron
@@cagednm69 grow up clown...
You too would want some electronics to help with the 250+BHP...
Ok boomer
Hate it when blokes like you wishing it was still 1976 hate on those of today. In a motorcycle GP riders sense, todays riders are faster, fitter and have more pressure to perform. How anyone can say those men aren't "men" is beyond me
な、懐かしい！片山さん走ってるし！
Sir please upload assen 1998 250cc
where the hell is the crash????
Hunter Brumby cesored I think
How years this race and motogp
They dragging of their knee helps to shift the weight going into the curves to compensate for the sintrifical forces coming off the stright aways..
Wrong! You can shift your weight without dragging a knee...it gives the rider a better feeling for lean angle. If you're going to use "big" words like centrifugal then use your spell-checker for crying out loud! Cheers!
@@thurney4343 He's not wrong, he just not 100% correct. The first point is weight change and a secondary result was that the knee was closer to the ground. If you research how this came to be you will understand. There are interviews of Kenny Roberts describing how this, his riding style, came to be. He describes how he was coping another rider who was shifting his weight in his seat to the inside and was cornering really fast. Kenny feeling a limitation to his own style, tried the technique and noticed that it made his bike corner better. He then went further with the technique and found out that it continued to improve cornering. The fact that he got to dragging his knee was just a result of moving the weight/body position to the inside. And back in those days with the limits of tire adhesion that was about as far as the bike could go.
push starting a GP bike during the start. That's amazing
Vernon Cooper's finest hour, the vile, odious little man, had no regard for riders safety. considering he was Clerk of Course. The ACU in those days was run as a old boys club
数々の悲劇からの
今ある技術
Barry Sheen. Roberts once said. The thought Barry would drill a hole in helmet. Just so he could smoke while riding.
Seems to have been censored.
Only 12 Rounds & must have been 40+ riders on the grid.
Barry Sheen, what a bloke
国産単車が世界を席巻！
２輪４輪共に個性豊かなレーサーが競技を盛り上げてた♪
Shambles. I apologize to American fans and riders that day. What an embarrassment that the course officials couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery.
well more than 30 entrants in this race!
I final understand the 'reason' for the 'GP starts'. If the engines weren't turned off while at the starting grid, everyone would have passed out, due to the fumes, lol!
No, the fragrant waft would break the concentration with reverie!! The heady days of Castrol R-30...
@@geoffheard5768 MMmmmmmm.....r30..............
Imagine that many bikes on today's Motogp grid. Sweet to see Americans 1 2 3 4
y the cut, wut happened
Two of them died
46+ civic car drivers with the huge muffler
No traction control here bro 👍
Was Ron Haslam a US rider?
British I think.
English
Verrry english
@ajfleming254 How was he killed?
This race.
Barry loved a cig
RIP Chris Carter
I loved the 500gps why don't they bring it back I guess it's cos they are 2 stroke.?
２stとロータリーが競技車両だけでも復活したら音的には最高♪
ce fut un duel de titans kenny roberts avait déclarer au sujet de spencer:ce gamin est invincible en short track
This commentator sounds like Murray Walker!
Exactly what I thought. %99.9 it's him.
@@Deniz1923
I thought he only did F1, but this absolutely has to be him! Maybe because the race was in Englad, he was commentating?
@@splash5974 Murray Walker was a motorcycle racing commentator long before he worked on F1 as was his father Graham, who was a very successful motorcycle racer including winning the Manx TT, with whom he jointly commentated early in his career. Murray also raced motorcycles.
LEGEND
thanks!
The track officials really fucked that up that day...the riders especially the Americans didn't know wtf was going on...unreal.
Hay bales???
All riders including any foreigners should be briefed before racing what flag signals are to show a race stop situation nowadays all flag posts show red flags them days just Clerk of Course on startline
"foreigners" - How welcoming of you...
@@westers1514 It's call a riders meeting and the fact that they either didn't have one or explain the flags is kind of scary. What's odd here it that Kenny and other US riders had been racing abroad for several years at this point and how the long formed ACU could drop the ball here is nuts!
@@raynic1173 What this shows is how crap the organisers were, and why the likes of Sheene and Roberts stood up to them.
No argument with you intended.
@@westers1514 could that have possible been a difference in rules with the ACU and FIM???
@@raynic1173 Maybe, or I suggest it showed the arrogance of the ACU?
YZRの始動性が…
ピットでジタンを吸ってるバリー・シーンカッコいい
centrifugal*
Spencer was an interesting character. Little known fact, he wouldn’t race unless he could attend church on race day. Was also a guy that hated competing with any injuries at all.
Actually Spencer is at pains to point out in his autobiography that the religious nut stuff was an invention of the press. I'd bet all racers also hate competing with any injuries at all.
Randy Mamola with 69 world championship points. Noice.
I have a short clip on here of Norman browns grave......titled Norman browns grave
balance and stability
KATAYAMA 😃
5 dead in GPs that year.
awww Murray Walker
@lMisterMeaner
Huber (i think), was slowing down right in the middle of the pack because his bike stalled, an unsighted Norman Brown plowed into the back of him at a very high speed.
OMG, funniest start ever.
Its just classic racing.
That was always the pattern. Ron Haslam must have lead the first half lap in almost every GP for 10 years.
Love the push start.. anyway here's a novel idea let's go back to this.. we can have a separate class for it... Only the best riders will race to the top without all these electronic AIDS and tech people and a computer guy you get where I'm going let's go back to basics
Barry Smoking pilot, smoking bike, (laughs)
Back then when men were men and women were women.
I think the pushing you bike starts were almost as stupid as the running to your car starts at LeMans.
Eddie & Kenny Freddie mamola sheene
Stick to the sewing and gardening buddy!!!!!
MOTOGPとは表記しない。
No Respect
locket ron！
Get er bucked
Americans used to be good at bike racing
Yes,they were brought up riding Flat track bikes.So they learned to corner very well
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LA fin HS
No disrespect to the riders who were killed, but look at the "safety" barriers. Hay bales? A wall that barely covers pit lane? I know racing in the past was hazardous and there were many questionable tracks, but Silverstone is supposed to be the birthplace of motorsport.
And then to top it off how disgusting it was, the Australian rider is lighting a cigarette. It's a good to know that things have improved a lot in 30 years.
In the 70's and 80's that was racing just like car racing, safety was not like today. Riders died on a regular basis, it was just that way back then. new technology safer tracks etc make it safer today like all forms of racing. Before bashing it remember all forms of racing did not get safe over night, it took years and trial and error in safety equipment track lay out etc before it got to where riders and drivers did not die every season. It is no different than the cars for the street of that error, safety was still in its infancy. Do not bash just realize it was what it was. Look back to the 50's and 60's, half shell helmets , no leathers racing on real roads, now that was crazy but that was what happens until the sport grows and makes tracks and develops safety barriers and riding gear.
Well arent you a judgemental fucking wanker. Perfect fucking saint are you?
And barry sheene is ENGLISH NOT FUCKING AUSTRALIAN
...Mate... Barry was a Pommy but was a much loved legend in Australia..He liked a smoke but that hardly makes him disgusting.
It was sad day for Australians when he died...but not from cigarettes.
@@sugarnads You've just lost any right to criticise because entering a discussion like a highly abusive 10 year old will get your ramblings dismissed just like that by any self respecting adult.... F'ing this, f'ing that, and the constructive part of your comment is where?????
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