Greatest Sounding 4-Stroke Motorcycles You Ever Heard
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2024
- To me, one of the things that makes riding a motorcycle such a visceral experience is the sound. So in this, the first in a series of videos, that is exactly what I will be looking at.
This is Part 1 about the 4 strokes.
I will post the second about the 2 strokes as soon as possible
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:29 Honda CB350 Four
04:38 Suzuki GSX250 R
05:14 Honda CBR250 R
05:50 Kawasaki ZXR250 Ninja
06:29 Yamaha FZR250
08:40 Ducati 916 SP, SP1 and SP2
11:04 Laverda Jota
13:05 Yamaha Crossplane R1
14:36 BSA Rocket 3
16:11 Britten V1000
18:00 MV Agusta 500 3C
20:27 Fuelling W3
22:28 Honda VFR400 and RVF400
24:50 The Sixes
25:21 Kawasaki Z1300
27:32 Honda CBX1000
29:51 Benelli 750 and 900 Sei
33:17 Honda RC149
36:15 Moto Guzzi 500 V8
38:26 Laverda V6
42:47 Honda RC174
46:35 Honourary mention and Thoughts from the shed
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There isn't a single video of yours I have watched where I've not learned masses about bikes and been thoroughly entertained with it. Thank you for the vast amount of effort it must take to put these together.
Glad I surprised you mate and its good to know you enjoyed it 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
And the gentle cadence in the voiceover. I've literally gone to sleep listening to old boys videos.
Less of the old boy now lol, thanks for your support 🙂Cheers for the comment too mate. made me smile, Ride Free 🙂
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for including the beautiful Laverda six cylinder. I would have never thought that anyone would remember it and its heart wrenching story. Thank you so much from Germany.❤
I am a certified Laverdisti :-) I ran a Zane 750 for years and have just about finished a Laverda SF2 ish built from boxes of oily parts, th-cam.com/video/tqQPNICah8g/w-d-xo.html I also am privilidged to own the V6 book written by Jean-louis Olive and although yes a sad story. it is also a very inspiring one. The eforts of Cor Dees to continue the legend is another extension to the story that could fill another whole video :-) ride free brother
Honda vfr 750 with a sports exhaust sound pretty special too!
great bikes, I had to stop somewhere though mate . this was the hardest list to thin down 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmcYour comment doesn't make sense. What you should have done is put bikes that really sound good and the VFR 750/800 cannot be missing. R1??? Really??
@@martinx1525 we all have different tastes, as to my comment, thats how i have run the channel from day 1. otherwise my 5 favourite bikes would be in every video and it would just be boring, just because you havent heard a Horex or Migdula, or a Laverda V6, doesnt make them sound worse, as i said this list was impossible to be objective, everyones list would be different.
Never knew about the Laverda V6, That was beautiful and what a sound!
Glad I surprised you mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Ah,it's the tremendous diversity of engine 'voices' which make motorcycles sooooo enthralling! Another great vid!
A good point well put mate 🙂Cheers for the comment. Ride Free 🙂
All of Honda's V-Fours were ear candy, especially with a Staintune exhaust.
true, but the 400 at full chat has to be the best 🙂
Gonna give you some credit. Very seldom will I watch a video this long and stay engaged. Kudos!!
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Thanks for the most in depth review of rare and iconic bikes I have watched on TH-cam. There is so much information to take in, it’s gonna take 2 or 3 more viewings to fully appreciate the work you have put in.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
As a child hands down the K1 750 Honda Four blew my mind and ears (got me to buy one when at age). Three or four of these machines with baffles out idling down the road sounded like a WW2 B52 bomber raid. My Triumph with the BSA Rocket Three engine was a head turner sound maker as an adult.
Great story 🙂Cheers for adding your bit mate. Ride Free 🙂
I’ve just had an eargasm!
enjoy it mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Brought me to tears watching
Just great
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching.Hope you will climb aboard. Ride Free 🙂
As always, a superbly presented, informative and thoroughly enjoyable video. I love your relaxed commentary. Those 250 screamers are amazing!
great bikes, I do have a soft spot for the VFR400s too 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
Absolutely wonderful video. Many thanks.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Absolutely brilliant content, I enjoyed every second of that video......fantastic 👍
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Excellent. My favorite bikes for sound is my 2002 RC51 with Sato exhaust, and my friends Kawasaki modified supercharged H2. Sounds like it is tearing the space/time continuum. Riding behind it is and hearing it is unbelievable!
aah but which bikes in the list would you replace? 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. what were your favourite bits? Ride Free 🙂
I enjoyed this a lot, and thank you so much for making it.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
really hard to beat that cbx it was beautiful
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truly, but then came the Laverda V6 :-)
What a special video about some very special bikes. Thanks so very much!
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
As person from ussr era would add jawa 350 and iz planeta:) they had no performance at all, but that sound was promise of adventure (when that bike was finally started) that 2 stroke low rpm popping sound in idle is just magic
Welcome aboard mate, I remember an old Jawa CZ i had for a short while :-), it had its flaws, but it was good fun :-) enjoy the ride and cheers for the support
Brilliant!! Great work!!
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
What a wonderful video. Worth putting the earphones in!
This is of today, following a Ducati Multistrada down the high street this week, sounds amazing except with the dry clutch that sounds like a set of spanners in the washing machine.
I can’t argue with your list, I’d be very proud to hear any of those amazing engines on my bike. Thanks very much
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching.Hope you will climb aboard. Ride Free 🙂
Awesome vid!
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Your videos always bring me so much nostalgia. Thanks👍🏻
glad it jogged some good memories🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
I love the sound of those sixes that Kaplan shows. The Kawasaki amazed me, I didn't know they existed. Lol I've had some nice sounding bikes myself. A 2002 Honda VFR800 with a Staintune exhaust, 2008 Suzuki Hayabusa, and now a 2023 Yamaha MT 10 with the CP4 engine. They're all good bikes and lots of fun to ride.
The Crossplane R1 engine is a peach
Totally agree about the Honda 297... and I'm old enough@ 71 to remember Ago on the triples and fours especially at the TT.On the banking at the Creg, he passed me several times so close that there was a percussion type of physical blast and the explosive bark that made me flinch involuntarily ruining my panning and left me with photos consisting of empty tarmac,tarmac with fraction of Ago's helmet, tarmac with end of bellowing pipes...I was 0nly 17 so improved over the years to pin sharp pics of Bob Mckinly,SMBH ducati win, Mcguiness etc but I'll never forget I'll never forget the Triumph Slippery Sam,MVs as their revs peaked and crashed as the back tyre left the ground around the mountain.
one tiny criticism is you very informative comme ntary can spoil the sounds we all want to hear..maybe subtitles could help. Excellent research all the same.thanks. One thing that is not covered by anyone is the on bike sound experience, my 2000 Ducati's 916 engine has a great exhaust sound above 6000- 9500 rpm ( no catalysers), but the induction howl/moan going down the box gets me everytime.😅
glad it jogged some good memories mate, and i am editing out a raw sound compilation as we speak lol that is why i left the gaps, but the one im doing is just the best clips with no voiceover at all, no subtitles even, just the bikes and the music that they make 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Fantastic- thank you.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. I am doing a raw sound no talking edit with just the best sound footage so keep your eyes open 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Another great video 🤘🏻🏍️
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
I’ve seen the Moto Guzzi V8 500 and the Laverda V6 going round Mallory. What a sound!
special bikes indeed 🙂
Fantastic viewing as ever chief . Always look forward to your vids . Thank you once again , it must take ages to do this research , very much appreciated 👊
cheers mate, i do my best 🙂 at the minute the most time consuming bit is the editing lol, ive exhausted the capacity of my laptop lol, once the video is over 30 minutes long it takes forever to process and finalise all the clips. and nothing else will work while its doing its thing lol
Another great video from this channel. I think I thoroughly enjoyed each and every one. And my personal vote goes to that green KZ-1300 in the video as my favorite sounding bike!
eit is a great bike 🙂 Cheers for watching mate and for the comment. Ride Free 🙂
You are an encyclopedia of love for motorcycles... Thank you 👍🏾 Even if we are trying to find the same one 😍
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching.Hope you will climb aboard. Ride Free 🙂
Thanks!
🙂Cheers for watching and for the donation mate. what were your favourite bits? Ride Free 🙂
You are to motorcycle videos, as David Attenborough is to nature documentaries. Thanks as always. I don't buy merch, like ever, but an exception need s to be made here. Bravo, please keep bringing us motorcycle histories, in your unique, passionate and entertaining manner.
cheers as always my friend 🙂 flattered i feel 🙂 I do my best, Sorry its still quite low output at the minute, but im hoping the algorithm starts being kinder again now the copyright strikes are out. It paid for itself until that, but since i have been having to focus my time earning elsewhere, it may be in time i have to go down a different path like Patreaon, but for now I will keep at it and hope, there is a good one coming that i know youll enjoy 🙂
I have 2 x 1 5/8” ‘silencers’ on my Moto Guzzi LeMans 2. It snarls on the over-run. Another good-sounding bike I reckon.
Indeed mate. glad you enjoyed it 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
My favorite, that I’ve owned, is the FZR400. 👍🏻
great bikes. In aome ways a similar ride to the VFR, and I am a sucker for Genesis engines 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
Owned......(past tense) ..... :(
@@garyives1218 i think we all have bikes we wish we would have kept :--)
@@garyives1218 Owned, yes, it’s a sad thing, but I’m happy with my current collection.
I really enjoy your vids, thank you for such well compiled content. I learn every time I watch.
🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. what were your favourite bits? Ride Free 🙂
What a brilliant compilation. Stunning!
Thanks for your support mate 🙂
Living in the USA, we unfortunately didn't get those wonderful quarter-liter screamers.
they were made primarily for the Japanes market, i think the ones we got were all grey imports
That MV500! WOW!
🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
What a bike. I owned a CB500 and a cb750K and never new there was a little brother. BAREBONESMC is just s o cool. Thanks
they were the forgotten one, what a piece of engineering
Many years ago when I was 16 my old chap took me to buy my first motorcycle. A 49 cc MZ Simpson motorcycles. From the local motorcycle shop . The owner
Had his old factory honda from the late 60 in his showroom. A 350 Honda 6 , which he rode to victory, as a works rider for Honda On very rare occasions he would start it up !! To this day I can still remember the noise echoing around the town .
Thank you so much you brought it all back to me .there is much more to this story. Maybe I’ll share another time
Alas both my old chap and John have passed now .
Cheers to the both of them .
A great story mate. and my thoughts go with you for the ones we have lost. glad it jogged some good memories though 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Loved the video! Have you considered the RSV4 from Aprilia? Cheers
great bikes, I had to stop somewhere though mate. I did feature Aprilia here th-cam.com/video/9frunVVZcHI/w-d-xo.html although not the RSV4 specifically, I talk about the company and several models 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
Brilliant video as always
glad you enjoyed it mate hope there were some surprises 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Awesome! Music to my ears! I have a Moto Guzzi 850 LeMans Mark 2 with a set of 1 5/8” straight-thru’s that snarl on the over-run like nothing else.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Cheers for watching. have a great weekend 🙂
What an amazing video, and quality audio archive of some of the most glorious sounds made by man. It brings tears to my eyes along with joy to my heart, for which I cannot thank you enough! Please keep 'em coming Good Sir - these are treasures beyond price.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
GOOD VIDEO. TRULY OPEN MY EYE. GOOD JOBS.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Great Video ! What was missing in my opinion : Laverda SFC 750, Moto Guzzi le mans 1 850, Ducati 900ss bevel drive, norton manx 500 ...
great bikes,i featured some other Italians here th-cam.com/video/dvI7bb0MlX4/w-d-xo.html and here th-cam.com/video/9frunVVZcHI/w-d-xo.html 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
Hey, yeah, thanks. I've seen them all :-)
thanks for your support 🙂Cheers for adding your bit too mate.have a great weekend🙂
F fantastic loved every minute did good job. The screaming 4 pot 250cc 🤤
great bikes,i featured some of them here too th-cam.com/video/--s1H54GhMk/w-d-xo.html 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
I always thought the TL1000R had a great sound with 2 Bro's pipes. Cheers from NZ
I think 2 brothers could make a Honda 50 sound fierce 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
Oh the glorious soùnd thankyou it made my day.
🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. what were your favourite bits? Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmc I don't think I could choose any as best bits they where all just great.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, Cheers for watching. have a great weekend 🙂
Oh my. Oh my. I rode, at break-neck speed, my Laverda 3CE (predecessor to the Jota - which I later owned) down to the Bol D'Or at the Paul Ricard circuit in Southern France to watch the Laverda V6 race. As they say 'I was there' !. It was a hot week-end. At the end of the official racing the track was opened for approx. 30 mins (I suspect unintentionally) to spectators with bikes to take a blast around. I remember putting in 3 laps with my buddy who was on a Honda 900 Super Sport, before they closed it down. Such fantastic memories. I really like my current Moto Guzzi V7 850 but this has me wanting to go out and buy a more powerful bike !. Even at my age, once speed gets in the blood ... it is hard to shake.
glad it jogged some good memories mate, My SF2 is fast enough for me these days 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Nice to see you back . Thanks 👍👍👍
Glad you missed me mate 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment. what were your favourite bits? and bikes? Ride Free 🙂
I have a CBR250 1988 and have just had the body work restored and am going to get it sorted ready for spring and take it to Mondelo Park over here . Cant wait to see how it goes. I watched a TH-cam vid a couple of years ago and the CBR 250 gave a R6 a serious hard time LOL The next bike that you featrued that i love is the CBX 6 cyclinder what a bike . Out of my price range .I would say that watching this stream the best bits for me was seeing very rare bikes with 6 cyclinders . I have been around bikes for over 40 years and just didnt know that so many bikes was manufatured with 6 cyclinders. The best bike for me was the Kawasaki 1300 Eddie Lawson special .The best of the bunch . I saw one of these on the A5 on its way to Ireland a few years ago and fell inlove with it simply wow . I talked to the owner and he loved it .👍👍👍 @@barebonesmc
@@cbrider726 people dont realise that smaller bikes can actually be quicker on many circuits 🙂 have fun. I had a Z1300 for a while but it had been badly butchered in all honesty and in the end I was made an offer and it went. i prefer smaller and lighter for most riding, especially these days
Well done!
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
I love the sound of the R1 racers, but as an MT10 owner, I prefer it's sound. It is absolutely brilliant and I'm besotted by mine. I agree with your assessment of the best sound. I was on the Strubben Tribune bend at Assen for (what we called) the 500 cc Motorcycle Grand Prix in 1980 and Mike did a few demo laps on his old RC174 and as he pootled past us, he just kept pulling in the clutch and revving the B0ll0cks off it. Wonderful sound.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 We all have our personal favourites. Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Outstanding. So appreciated. I got goosebumps just anticipating my goosebumps. I certainly would share, but most of my "friends" stopped paying attention to me long ago.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 People are strange as Jim Morrison would say lol Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Good movies! Cheers from a plus 35 years z1300 rider. 🤘🏻
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
.. Yet another most excellent upload,.. Looking forward to the two stroke one,.. Keep-up the splendid work, good Sir ,...
Thanks for your support mate 🙂 the feedback does help me and i do appreciate it
Love your no2 choice. I have always dreamt of building a bike with a Suzuki Vitara v6 engine in a tubular spine frame after seeing the Laverda.😊🇦🇺
Sometimes they do just get it right 🙂 That would be a serious build :-) Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
Great video!!
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
It's funny; I was sitting here thinking about the 69 BSA Rocket 3, and how magical it sounded to 16 year old me. Actually 69 was a special time: The Kawasaki Mach 3, Rocket 3 and the KO Honda 750. Even stock they were all new, uncorked and made a glorious noise. The fun didn't last. By 1970 bikes started getting quieter.
glad it jogged some good memories mate, they were wild days, and even wilder nights 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Shared!
top man
I’ve only just discovered your channel and I love it. Thanks for the effort you put into your content. Having a Jota, it’s great to see it feature here! I also have another bike that is a treat to the ears. The Yamaha MT01, 1670 v twin. Mine has the optional Yamaha options list Akrapovic exhausts, which a border line hypnotic to listen to when riding!
The MT01 are great bikes,i featured them here th-cam.com/video/RkMPFU4QLzg/w-d-xo.html 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
Excellent patient presentation 👍🏾
I have heated gloves and very proficient layers that allow me to ride year round. My California Heat- heated gloves play a major role. Thanks for sharing your setup 😎
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Wow! You brought back a lot of awesome memories AND introduced me to some fantastic sounding bikes I can't remember ever seeing before! I think I did post a tiny video of a CBX taking off with an immaculate old 750 4 from either side of my Burgman a little while back, he didn't wind it out since it was still fairly cold but, they do sound amazing when up in the revs and throttle. So many of them sounded amazing and I'm right with you about the importance of the sound. My DL650 with that Two Brothers Racing exhaust made a really sweet sound the gopro vid just doesn't do justice but, not a patch on these bikes you showed here. One I really liked the sound of that I had was my XS 750 triple shaft drive Yammy which had been worked over for racing so the engine was a fair bit livelier than stock and had a custom 3 into 1 that made a pretty addictive sound that made you feel like you had to wring it out everywhere you went, just so I could hear it. It wouldn't compare to most, if any of the bikes you showed here.
I don't envy you the challenge of making this video and trying to position them, you took on a hell of a challenge and despite the inevitable disagreement many will undoubtedly have, I think you did a great job and thank you so much for it 👍.
cheers mate, imagine what the 2 stroke one is doing to my head lol, this has been a serious quest 🙂
@@barebonesmc I can see that, no wonder you're so busy. This one was quite a major effort I'm sure and 2 stroke engine noises are a LOT more subjective, plus a lot of people just hate the sound of them anyway.
I'm patient enough to wait to find out but, I'm sorta expecting my old Suzy 550 GT to maybe make it into that one. I won't be terribly disappointed if not but, I did enjoy the cackle of 3 2 stroke cylinders running together. To me, it was probably the most pleasant sounding one I ever owned. It or maybe you prefer the 750 water bottle, or maybe you've got a bunch that sound better than either of them, either way, I won't give you a hard time since they will be a LOT harder to choose from all the different 2 strokes over the years and every one of us dinosaur 2 stroke lovers, yeah, all 6 of us will have different reasons for loving particular ones, plus stock or modified, especially expansion chambered ones will all suit different people.
BTW, I remember you saying something about that "2STROKESTUFFING" and if it was the one where he worked out he'd built the expansion chamber ALL based off 1 wrong measurement at the head that compounded from there. Well he's now made a pipe that by rights is still not right but he had an idea and wanted to try it. It did work pretty well actually and got up to over 12 hp at the rear wheel but, he's only just done it so he's almost certainly going to still build one to known formulas but I think he's going to try a few more things with this one first.
The one thing to remember that fools me every time is that in the bike his engine looks kinda big but, it's actually tiny. That top pulley up above that gearbox way up there is the crankshaft, it's only mounted up there on top of all that for testing purposes.
I'm also loving hopefully to understand 2 strokes better. I've owned and even rebuilt several 2 stroke bikes over the years yet have never really completely understood exactly how they work, plus how to modify port timing by opening up the right parts to get the port timing to suit the way you want it to deliver power so this is very interesting to me.
You kinda know it's a tad revvy when he describes 11,000 rpm as idling speed lol.
A lot of commenters are suggesting his home made dyno isn't reading accurately and that they mostly all think it sounds like it's putting out more power than his readings are showing. HINT: If you're interested in power and the torque figures, get ready to hit the space bar about 3 seconds after you see him reach over to press a button on the laptop in front of him.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 the 2 strokes one is shall we say, complex lol, the 2 stroke stuffing guy is very clued up, and not frightened to get it wrong too which is important. it is interesting listening to him. have a great weekend mate
Excellent auditory treasures every one. Great video yet again. Well worth the wait.
For me, the Britton V twin has a quality reminiscent of the Rolls Royce Merlin: raw and untamed, yet with a definite brutal purpose. As Clarkson pointed out, Aston Martin V8s are “poetic violence”, but New Zealand’s rarest export, and the engine that won the ‘39-‘45 air war both stand alone in their own realm.
Thank you for sharing. No need to apologise for the output delay.
Peace
thanks for your support 🙂Cheers for adding your bit too mate. Ride Free 🙂
The Honda CBX 1000-6 takes the biscuit for best sound to my ears. 🙂
It is a great sounding bike, i just preferred the bass bellow of the Benelli comparing those 3 🙂
I know it probably doesn't belong in these hallowed halls but I have to mention my poor man's Ducati the humble Yamaha TRX850 wich with a set of decent pipes also sounds awesome.
Cheers from Oz.
great bikes and far more than a poor mans Duc IMO they will find their place in time 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
In this list i miss the Norton Rotary racebike.
Suchva special bike.
well, you got a mention, and i thought the Crighton covered it, as really, it is the updated re engineered idea from the Norton, but it was always Crighton's design
and BTW the videos are much appreciated
Thanks for your support mate 🙂 the feedback does help me and i do appreciate it
I was at Mallory and saw both the Moto Guzzi V6 and the Laverda V6 race. Astonishing. What a sound.
my mallory days go back to the Transatlantic :-) but no further
What year did Guzzi do a V6, 'cos I must have missed that one?
@@RichardASK the Guzzi was a V8, itll just be a typo
1957 - ish for the Guzzi V8 500. Not sure re the Laverda. Can find out.
My goodness, where have I been ? Not just my favourite motorcycle channel but pushing others out of the way for first viewing rights. What a ride I had on that Triumph triple !
thanks for your support 🙂Cheers for adding your bit too mate. Ride Free 🙂
Great video! I remember back in the day when i first saw a Laverda 1000 RGS and i almost run up the back of a car on my Katana 1100😂.My favourite would be the GSXR 1100 86 model with a Megacycle muffler
lol, great story, welcome aboard
For your merch my friend.... "Who needs therapy, I ride a bike!" End of! No explanation needed! Anger management and "Executive relief" every time anyone throws their leg over their bike in one session, no matter the size of that/their bike! Keep up the good work my brother!
Thanks for your support mate 🙂 the feedback does help me and i do appreciate it
I must off owned all the 2 stroke the 750 water cooled and t500. suzukis way back years ago i had i loved
Sometimes they do just get it right lol 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
Thanks for showing the Jota & RGS plus the Benelli. My friend with a Jota and I (RGS) were at a M/C event years ago and we had a sound off. The crowd loved it but the promoter did not invite us back. Before the RGS, we also had a 750 Sei with the 6 into 2 Marving exhaust - a glorious sound. Thanks so much for the good memories!!
glad it jogged some good memories mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
The 180 Jota with Contis on always sounded better than the 120 engine. Just my view of course.
@@RichardASK this is where it becomes very personal 🙂
Best heavy metal album ever!
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. I am doing a raw sound compilation of the best bits with no talking, so keep your eyes open lol Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
I absolutely love your content, your opinion is spot on!🤘My best sounding bike is my ZG1000 Concours.
Thanks for your support mate 🙂 the feedback does help me and i do appreciate it. Cheers for adding your bit too
From the old "Bike" magazines... Last page... Ogri! I am an official, honorary member Of the Ogri bike club first started in BFPO Germany and sanctioned by the Ogri artist! We were the only people allowed,by him, to bear this honour! And was and still proud of that Honour!
All Hail Ogri :-)
Honda's whole history makes perfect sense when you realize that Mr. Honda's first great product was a piston ring whose spec and metallurgy was head and shoulders above the competition. He had to build his own motors to use them to their capacity!🙂
Great story 🙂Cheers for adding your bit mate. Ride Free 🙂
Nice video but where is the Laverda 750 SFC???
great bikes,i mention them briefly here th-cam.com/video/KF7vqFhRDA0/w-d-xo.html at the beginning, and they will find their true place in time Have you seen my SF2 rebuild th-cam.com/video/tqQPNICah8g/w-d-xo.html 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
it's 5am here, I think I am going to have a great day, at least, the start of my day...
enjoy it 🙂Cheers for watching. theres a preview of some of the 2 strokes just gone up too 🙂 have a great day mate, all the best to you and yours 🙂
thanks dude, all the same to you, will be watching...
@@maxxpretzy2557 heres to a great 2024 for everyone
Not as versed in motorcycles and models, I’ve heard of most all these bike. But it’s still enjoyable to listen and learn. Two of my favorite motorcycle sounds is the Yamaha MT 09 and a Triumph Daytona 675. I can’t leave without mentioning my own 75’ Kawasaki Z1b with it’s 4/1 header. I can recognize it’s sound with my eyes closed. I can pull up to any car meet and heads turn to see what sounds so mean and nasty.
we all have our own favourites 🙂 and I do love triples. I have a 955 Daytona with a Race pipe on, being honest though, the sound of the old Trophy 900 I had was better. sounded like a Lancaster bomber coming in to land 🙂 It was a very hard list to thin down
Well collected, some great sounds! Like you mentioned, hard to get them all. I would say the Kawasaki Z1 had a distinct sound when piped right. I believe the note changes with the later inline 4s due to the change to 4 valve head configuration. To my ear anyway!!
glad you enjoyed it mate, and we all have our favourites 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
The best sounding bike I ever owned was a 1995 Triumph Adventurer with aftermarket pipes. That big triple torquing out of a corner just would make your hair stand up. An old beater 1st gen Honda VFR700 sounded quite nice too with that big gear driving the camshafts.
I had a 94 Trophy 3 and it sounded like a Lancaster bomber coming in to land lol, great bikes 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
I have a Ducati 600SS with a Scorpion race-can. That certainly sounds good as the revs rise!
Im sure :-)
Fantastic list thanks sir 👍 no complaints from me IMHO there's a few v4s missing and I've Ashley's had a soft spot for the motus v4
Also the feuling engine is available for purchase. Note: I'm in the USA and maybe the website differs? Either way the msrp is a cool $100,000 USD😳😳😳
Glad you enjoyed it mate, Hope I surprised you. It was the hardest list to thin down, Motocyszk are another that have come up that i missed, the question is, which would you drop from the list to make room lol 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
cheers for adding that about the Fuelling, it just says none available from here, ill have to check using a vpn sometime but thanks
1986, VFR 750. On the red line sounds awesome. Panther 600/650 fantastic thumper.
Both great bikes,i featured the VF here th-cam.com/video/c4n0iL9mUW8/w-d-xo.html and the VFR here th-cam.com/video/RkMPFU4QLzg/w-d-xo.html I cant have them on every list lol. Its a while since ive seen one of the old Slopers about 🙂I remember one towing an old merc i had around the ring road after a breakdown in my younger days, thanks for one of those daft memories 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmc Riding is over now, vertigo, so I gave up. Used to love taking the VFR out on the Welsh roads.
@@machendave sorry to hear that mate, i do love Wales, lived near Bishops Castle in the Marches for a while 🙂
Vfr!
great bikes 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
You should get together with Allen Millyard. He builds some insane motorbikes
He is a master. a different league of engineering to me that is for sure 🙂 i want his induction heater for bending pipes 🙂have a great day my friend
Listening to the loping idle is just as important. A moment of silence would be nice at these times.
Good video though. Interesting and informative. Thanks!
i try and balance it mate but with this video its a bit different, and with many of them race bikes, you have the problem many just wont idle consistently
@@barebonesmc The idle inconsistency is what makes that beautiful engine sound I'd like to hear. I've been around race engines all my life. Thanks again for the information!
@@dwayneneufeld1696 ahhh 🙂 i will try and bear it in mind mate, it is always a balance 🙂
Great video, and of course there is the question of personal taste, but I feel the big V-twins are underrepresented. My Moto Guzzi 850 le Mans with Rex pipes is still one of the greatest sounding bikes ever, if not the greatest of all time. That the BSA 750cc Rocket 3 made 12th place was satisfying, but I would have rated it higher. Mine was a love-hate relationship. Great to ride (once the stupid cow-horn handlebars for the US market were replaced with clubman bars), ate all the bigger Japanese bikes for breakfast on the open road, and sounded great - but leaked oil and the electrics were atrocious until I sorted them.
glad you enjoyed it mate There were some hard choices with many amazing bikes left out 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think. hope youll climb aboard. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
An agastine full face saved my life many years ago
im glad it did mate, welcome aboard
I remember spectating at Creg Ny Baa at the IOM TT, and a Z1300 came round the corner, scraping everything, then wheelied off up the straight
Great story 🙂Cheers for adding your bit mate.
Top quality content! Respect and love to the channel! Its worth every view and subscribers and much more! Pure motorcycle love and knowledge! Oh music to my ears and smile to my face! RIDE FREE EVERYONE!
🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. what were your favourite bits? Ride Free 🙂
They were all wonderful in their own way! But my favourite
Ducati 916
Vfr/rvf
Cbx1000
Benelli 750-900
Laverda v6
Thanks for your support mate 🙂 the feedback does help me and i do appreciate it
The sound of a bike is a very important part of riding. That's why I think it will be a very long time before electric bikes really catch on.
I think that is one aspect, range and range anxiety is probably the biggest issue for me though
@@barebonesmc Okay, I'm not familiar with the range of e-bikes. I'm a singles- and twin guy myself, I think I'd miss those explosions too much. But luckily we're not all the same. P.S. Really like your videos!
@@svendtveskg5719 indeed mate, our differences are what make the world interesting 🙂 to be clear though, i am not a big fan of the electrics. the battery tech just isnt there yet as far as im concerned, and yes, i would miss that sound and feeling too. which is why i spend much of my time rescuing and keeping the old ones going 🙂
fell asleep before the engine started
lol, theres the version with no narrative here if it helps th-cam.com/video/VqDwjUpqbfc/w-d-xo.html
Always an education for me . Thanks. I have a 1983 CBX 400 - 4. Have you heard of them ?
🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. It was the CB400/4 Supersport here, had a few friends who had them, The RD350LC was my ride then, and later I had a 500/four so they fit either side of the 400 nicely lol what were your favourite bits? Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmc We had the 400 four supersport in Canada. Called it the ironing board lol. My CBX 400 Custom is shaft drive and seems to have been only sold in Japan. Only 1500 produced... Cheers
@@lancerbiker5263 intersting, didnt know about that one then, you live and learn as they say 🙂
@@barebonesmc True enough. I would appreciate any information your members could offer however. 🙂
fingers crossed @@lancerbiker5263
Hey! First 2 sounds was a 2stroke, or? I hope RCV213V5 is in the vids;)
nope, no 2 strokes in this, they come later in a follow up video. the little screamer is the RS149 5 pot Honda 4 stroke
My own favourite sounding four stroke would be the Harley Davidson XR750 flat track racer. Hope it appears in this list,
It didnt, but it was a hard list, they are a great, and great sounding bike, they will find a place at some point, cheers for watching
A 900 benneli l built a low rider it looked very lush
great bikes , sounds like a good project 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
Ducati has some nice sounding engines. I like the moto guzzi they make some cool bikes.
great bikes, I had to stop somewhere though mate 🙂 Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
@barebonesmc LOL, you did have a long list usually it's 10 or 12 on most channels. I didn't know there was another v8 motorcycle it was very cool ,I've only seen the boss hose v8 motorcycles and those are super heavy.
@@thedood4713 i dont do things by halves as my mother used to say lol, glad i surprised you too mate, can you imagine the nightmare the 2 stroke one is being? lol have a great week
@barebonesmc If they used 8 klr motors and combined them it'd probably be the most reliable v8 ever 😆 🤣 always fun to watch your videos ,I didn't know about some of these brands the fueling w3 was pretty cool to hear. The inline engines are usually the most reliable I still have an old amc with the inline 6.
@@thedood4713 imagine the doohicky redesign on a V8 KLR lol glad i gave you some surprises, cheers for support mate, have fun