Story from 1968, I ran a bus trip up to Mallory Park for the Post TT race and as I jumped off the bus in the car park, practice was taking place. Now most of guys on the trip had never been to a motorcycle race before, but as some of them were getting off the bus, Mike Hailwood was accelerating out the hairpin on the Honda 6 and in unison about half a dozen guys collectively exclaimed a lengthy “FUUUU**IN’ ‘ELL”. It was a magic moment that still gives me a buzz today.🤗✌️
Great sound! In the 30s the DKW supercharged bike on a still morning could be heard screaming down the mountain from anywhere on the island!! My 10 days at the 1992 IOM TT best of my life! A must for the bucket list!! 🏍😁
Zero flywheel weight+zero low-end torque+close-ratio gearbox= a damn hard bike to get a good start on, so props to Jim Redman and Mike Hailwood who push-started these machines and won on them. Not really much different than trying to get a 2-stroke going, fortunately...
Made much harder on that particular start by the fact that this particular bike had no first gear (it had broken at the Jurby test a day or so before and there had been frantic work by the mechanic to rebuld the enigne without it fitted, so Steve Plater was startiing off in second gear. If he had made it to Ramsey hairpin he would not have been able to slip the cluch enough to get it round...
Remember Hailwood at Brands for the Evening News Champions event after the T.T. What a sound and waving to the crowd after winning the race on his favourite 297cc six.
I saw Mike thrashing Agostini at Brands in the same period in the late 1960's. Mike on the 297cc Honda 6 left Ago on THE MV Agusta 500cc 3 trailing in his wake. It made quite an impression on a teenager who had made the journey to Brands down the A20 on his 150cc BSA Bantam.......!
On that occasion it was a ‘hell of a clutch slip’ because the bike had lost first gear… even if it hadn’t dropped a valve (probably because of the gross over revving - 19,000 when stone cold at Jurby a day or so previously), it was never going to make it past Ramsey hairpin.
I so well remember hearing that Honda screaming up the mountain to Verandah in '67 having an almighty battle with Agostini. What great rivals they were.
@@grahamyates2490 I saw Mike and Ago race at Brands in the same period. Mike won but Ago was such a good sport he always had a big smile on his face even in defeat......!
Sounded like he took off in 4th lol.....used to have a cbx..big bore kit, cams and a 6 into one..u used to let other people ride it just so i could listen to it..on a quiet evening you could hear it for miles
Ok, I'll admit it ... that's made me cry! I remember seeing Hailwood at Mallory Park and Brands on that!! I chatted to him years later in his shop 'Hailwood and Gould ' just below spaghetti junction. Lovely, polite , friendly man! I was devastated when he was killed ! RIP Mike! 🙏🙏👍👍😥😥
@@colinirons9305 He was killed not far from where I lived. He was on his way back from the chip shop just north of Studely and a lorry pulled across the dual carriageway, bastard! No insurance either! Tragic! 😫😥
@@jritchiejritchie2687 damn sure it was rider error starting out in such a tall gear 4 th maybe ? I used to race motocross with a 87 Honda CR-500 and my standard gear for starts was in 2nd or 3rd gear depending on track conditions but his start was NOT KIND OR EASY ON HIS CLUTCH if he had any left after that one!
What was the guy in black doing at the 0:20 mark? Was he the starter? Was he trying to stop him? Was the rider starting back from the start line and the dude in black not like that?
losi8ightyew is it tall gearing or was it handed to him in top gear after they started it looked like old mate was holding the clutch in when he gave it to him to me
losi8ightyew “Old mate” must be Dave Roper. The guy who’s been racing the highest number of classic race Honda’s this side of Mike Hailwood. He know his stuff.
yer cus everything always goes seemless with an audience hey? you could hear him shift down to get it going and once he was moving he short shift it go get your ears tested mate. that or hes as senile as you are i have to help my father with his bikes now after he taught me all about them but yer rito
You just witnessed a free energy ( runs only on air ) engine. Had nothing to do with gearing. Until the air starts to flow into the intake it will run like shit and when it hits that point were airflow is right ( watch and listen again to this video ) you hear the rpms ramp quickly, just like F1 car or JET engines. Time to wake from the matrix....
@@grahamyates2490 Used to go to the Island from '60 - '64 before I emigrated to NZ. Used to go for the Manx as well. Nearly went there to live had a job lined up at Ronaldsway airport but chose NZ instead lol.
@@jack80kiwi I moved to Sydney many years ago but still remember fondly those trips to the Island in June (well, there's bits of them I don't remember too well).
Pittsed Off,agree!The engine of a motorcycle is in my opinion the soul of the bike!Electric engines missed that sadly!In that era there were very different racing bikes from 1 till 6 and even v8 4strokes and very interesting 2strokes from 1till 4 cylinders too and there were no noise or maximum gear restrictions,no electronic software as traction control,rev limiters,sometimes a very narrow powerband like those 6 in line Honda and the possibility to walk in the pit lanes! Thats why I loved classic races or demo’s!Greetings from the Netherlands!
Moto E is a thing now. It’s only a matter of time. I’ve battery tech matches refilling times electric will our perform. If you want to win races you go with the best bike.
Saw John McGuinness riding around Castle Combe race track in 2014 on a replica. I believe they had to get special consent to run it there due to noise limits imposed on the track.
@@geoffdearth7360 I was there Geoff, in 68 69 70 71. Camped at Hillberry, never forget the sounds, jumped out of the tent for early morning practice coming down the mountain.
remember Mike Hailwood on one of these at Oulton Park. He was coming out of Dear Leap sat up behind Peter Inchley(flat on the tank) on a Villiers. After a few laps Mike overtook him and promptly fell off. Was gutted but then Mike remounted and set off after Inchley again; it was a still day and you could hear that bike wail as Mike gave it some proper stick. It only took a few(glorious sounding) laps for him to catch Peter and this time he didn't fall off. Mike had actually done something similar at one of the small meetings they had in either Spain(Monjuich or Jerez maybe) or Italy just before the Oulton meeting. If only bikes were allowed to sound like this again...
Great story! Mike fell of on many of occasions able to kick the bars straight, tear off any loose parts and continue the race and even win. Heck, he removed a carburator slide entirely so one pot was flat out 100% of the time on his MV 4 in 65' at the senior TT after a high speed wet crash....and won.
He was nicknamed Mike the bike for a good reason........and an Honorable mention please for Mick Doohan and all the men who braved the mighty 500 two strokes........
@@pinslayer4579 Yes those two strokes were difficult beasts. A power band narrower than the blade of a swiss army knife but when on song an horrendous power to weight ratio. Those guys were legends.
I wonder how available clutch plates are because this bike has none left. Hailwood would feather the clutch lever only 3 or 4 times before fully engaging it with TT gearing.
@@ventisette. I have no experience of riding the 250cc RC165 six, but I have done a lot of miles on a 297cc RC174 six, including the TT course. Actually they have a surprisingly linear power/torque delivery, pulling cleanly and strongly from about 6,000 to 17,000 in the case of the RC174. This RC165 would pull from about 6000 to 18,000 where peak power is delivered (17,000 for the RC174 which is longer stroke).
Chris had kinda learnt what to say at these times, and was mimicking what he had heard others say. Well almost. In his broadcast he said "what a noise"! Which is a bit different than "what a sound!"
Wow ..........were those tiny bikes that High geared back in the day, that you couldn't even get off the line with out slipping the clutch for half a mile or was it badly adjusted? Did sound as though he was trying to get off the line in 3rd.
Wish i could see & hear it in person. Had a 500cc 3cyl. 2 stroke back in the day. Seems Milo Janis has a point. Would be nice to compare both in person & take them for a ride. That would be very cool.
@Caferacer Wolf snowflakes like John McGuinness, Guy Martin and Bruce Anstey. Better riders than you, or anyone you've ever met. Now fuck off little man.
Team Obsolete had one at Steamboat Springs when they still had a race there. That thing reved so fast and so loud it was scary. Sadly, before we all had in our pockets the ability to record it.
Alan Millyards honda 'tribute' is an amazing piece of work made by grafting two liquid cooled road bike enignes together. An astonishing achievement, BUT it nowhere near as loud as the real thing... AND it has an idle on the engine and an electric starter. If you let the revs drop on the original Honda 6's (RC165, 166 or 174) below 4000 the engine stops dead as if the ignition has been cut.
Yes, it shows Dave Roper revving the bike to 19,000 when static. Brutal and unnecessary of a bike which made peak power at 17,500. The mecanical sympathy of a gorilla.
So did I. Watching from Clearways, on the first lap the bikes all disappeared onto the GP circuit and they were all gone. Suddenly SMB appeared going towards Clearways. There was a long gap before the 2nd rider appeared.
I might be accused of splitting hairs, but the only time Mike Hailwood rode an RC165 was at Suzuka/Japan in 1965 (he won - 1 and a half minutes ahead of second place finisher Isamu Kasuya on another RC165). All the sixes Mike Hailwood rode after that time were RC166 or 174's.
@@Coltnz1 That was our favourite site, Clearways, until they started building great big hospitality suites. And we used to park our bikes along the road just behing the mound.
@@peterg2yt You may be right, It was the bored ot 250 (to 298). He won, Agostini second on the MV, Phil Read third, Bill Ivy Forth, Ray Pickerell fifth.
Actually , it is 250cc 6 cylinder 4-stroke . Revs to around a Million RPM . Four Stroke . HONDA . The Four stroke people . They only did the NSR series to stay in the Racing Game .
It WASN'T first gear. It had been broken at Jurby a day or two previously when being ridden by Dave Roper. Steve Plater did amazingly well to get it off the start line at all!
Story from 1968, I ran a bus trip up to Mallory Park for the Post TT race and as I jumped off the bus in the car park, practice was taking place. Now most of guys on the trip had never been to a motorcycle race before, but as some of them were getting off the bus, Mike Hailwood was accelerating out the hairpin on the Honda 6 and in unison about half a dozen guys collectively exclaimed a lengthy “FUUUU**IN’ ‘ELL”. It was a magic moment that still gives me a buzz today.🤗✌️
Legend say the sound of those pipes still echos down that road
They still echo around paddock at brands
Certainly a better sound than bagpipes??????.
He almost caught up to him there with the microphone...
Great sound! In the 30s the DKW supercharged bike on a still morning could be heard screaming down the mountain from anywhere on the island!! My 10 days at the 1992 IOM TT best of my life! A must for the bucket list!! 🏍😁
07....best time in my life... Shipped our blackbird to UK from Australia... Got to ride the circuit.... Mega.
Having heard recordings of Hailwood in the day this brought a smile to my face. Those bikes were incredible. Wonderful sounds!
"Wonderful sounds" - I agree having had the privilege to witness Mike racing on the 297cc Honda 6 in the 1960's''''.....never forgotten !
Zero flywheel weight+zero low-end torque+close-ratio gearbox= a damn hard bike to get a good start on, so props to Jim Redman and Mike Hailwood who push-started these machines and won on them. Not really much different than trying to get a 2-stroke going, fortunately...
+no pilot jet
Made much harder on that particular start by the fact that this particular bike had no first gear (it had broken at the Jurby test a day or so before and there had been frantic work by the mechanic to rebuld the enigne without it fitted, so Steve Plater was startiing off in second gear. If he had made it to Ramsey hairpin he would not have been able to slip the cluch enough to get it round...
had to slip the clutch up to 70 mph before he hooked up, i heard 7 speed trans and 20,000 rpm
Boy o boy whot a bike ,sound of it going down the track ,even miles away sounded like heaven
Sounds better than the sound of F1 cars today
It sounds better than most F1 not only newest.
Remember Hailwood at Brands for the Evening News Champions event after the T.T. What a sound and waving to the crowd after winning the race on his favourite 297cc six.
I saw Mike thrashing Agostini at Brands in the same period in the late 1960's. Mike on the 297cc Honda 6 left Ago on THE MV Agusta 500cc 3 trailing in his wake. It made quite an impression on a teenager who had made the journey to Brands down the A20 on his 150cc BSA Bantam.......!
Holding your arm out to get the microphone 3 feet closer to the bike that was a mile away by then made me smile.....
That's like photographers who have to bend their knees because they're 6" too tall for every photo they take.
He didn't want to pick up his pounding heart beat.
@@grantm6514 I figure that is to stabilize the shot - much like shooting is more stable kneeling than standing. No photographer, though.
Shame the other guy talked over it.
Directional mic possibly
That was one hell of a clutch slip and what a sound 😊😊😊
On that occasion it was a ‘hell of a clutch slip’ because the bike had lost first gear… even if it hadn’t dropped a valve (probably because of the gross over revving - 19,000 when stone cold at Jurby a day or so previously), it was never going to make it past Ramsey hairpin.
Back in the 60s, don't remember Mike Hailwood having that much trouble in the TT !
He wasn't trying to run the engine on ethanol contaminated unleaded petrol, back in the 1960's, that's why.
He's not used to the very high first gear and the amount of revs needed. It was a high rev engine.
Probably scared of being the one who stalls it.
I so well remember hearing that Honda screaming up the mountain to Verandah in '67 having an almighty battle with Agostini. What great rivals they were.
@@grahamyates2490 I saw Mike and Ago race at Brands in the same period. Mike won but Ago was such a good sport he always had a big smile on his face even in defeat......!
I want that played at my funeral.
David Ross 🤣
That's unbelievably funny and theres no other better sounding engine 👍💪👏👌🤘
That's sound is amazing, I hope in heaven would be like this.
Lol😅🤣🤣
LMAO! It will awake any dead bikers!!
The SR71 of the motorcycle world... my favourite classic bike.
Thats a slight overstatement
Literally any 250cc 4 banger from the 80's would cream that thing
Sounds like a pissed off bumble bee in a soft drink can and then broke free.
When mike hailwood was raceing at brans i lived 6 miles away i could work out where he was on the track by his gear changes amasing !
Better than that, I was at the Brands and saw where Mike was - in the lead.......!
That is one hell of a clutch.
Sounded like he took off in 4th lol.....used to have a cbx..big bore kit, cams and a 6 into one..u used to let other people ride it just so i could listen to it..on a quiet evening you could hear it for miles
First gear is really tall for top speed
@@blackbirdxx928 Started off in second becuuse first gear pinion was missing.
Ok, I'll admit it ... that's made me cry! I remember seeing Hailwood at Mallory Park and Brands on that!!
I chatted to him years later in his shop 'Hailwood and Gould ' just below spaghetti junction. Lovely, polite , friendly man!
I was devastated when he was killed ! RIP Mike! 🙏🙏👍👍😥😥
Me too, remember Murray Walker on the radio saying we have lost Mike Hailwood, just wasn't possible was it 😢
@@colinirons9305 He was killed not far from where I lived. He was on his way back from the chip shop just north of Studely and a lorry pulled across the dual carriageway, bastard! No insurance either! Tragic! 😫😥
The masonry of that wall is good.
saw jim redman ride 1 of these around assen and scarborough pure heaven when they on full chat
Mike Hailwood vs Giacomo Agostine at Malloy Park. MV 3 vs Honda 6. Something a little boy never forget....the sound :-)
I agree. So different and yet so incredible. I don't think that we are likely to get back to those halcyon days.
Riding one of these is on my bucket list.
6 little CR 125's in one. Love it!
My neighbour has a petrol hedge trimmer that sounds just like that
stop talking clay lol
It would have been nice to hear a couple of drive-by's during lapping.
Try TH-cam 👋
He didn't do a lap. He broke down at Sulby.
That's something F1 seems to have forgotten. The sound is everything.
Does it even have a clutch left in it??
It's a 8 speed but I think from listening to him start out I think it was a 4th gear
@@peacefulwarrior4078 Not a good idea.
@@peacefulwarrior4078 for what reason 🤷♂️?
Surely 2nd would be faster and easier on the clutch... than all that carry on ✊👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇🖐
I was thinking same thing...
@@jritchiejritchie2687 damn sure it was rider error starting out in such a tall gear 4 th maybe ? I used to race motocross with a 87 Honda CR-500 and my standard gear for starts was in 2nd or 3rd gear depending on track conditions but his start was NOT KIND OR EASY ON HIS CLUTCH if he had any left after that one!
What was the guy in black doing at the 0:20 mark? Was he the starter? Was he trying to stop him? Was the rider starting back from the start line and the dude in black not like that?
Takes such a long time to get it in gear.... What a machine, along with the MV 3 cylinders. These were the Rockn' Roll days of Racing
Everyone complaining about the starting off, with extremely tall gearing there's really no other way.
losi8ightyew is it tall gearing or was it handed to him in top gear after they started it looked like old mate was holding the clutch in when he gave it to him to me
losi8ightyew
“Old mate” must be Dave Roper. The guy who’s been racing the highest number of classic race Honda’s this side of Mike Hailwood.
He know his stuff.
yer cus everything always goes seemless with an audience hey? you could hear him shift down to get it going and once he was moving he short shift it go get your ears tested mate. that or hes as senile as you are i have to help my father with his bikes now after he taught me all about them but yer rito
You just witnessed a free energy ( runs only on air ) engine. Had nothing to do with gearing. Until the air starts to flow into the intake it will run like shit and when it hits that point were airflow is right ( watch and listen again to this video ) you hear the rpms ramp quickly, just like F1 car or JET engines. Time to wake from the matrix....
It's more to do with no flywheel and bigger all power below 7 k revs
you can here when it comes on the cam! changes note to that amazing howl.
Incredible ❤️
Heard this sound in the sixties when they first arrived in the Island will never forget the sound on the Sulby straight with Mike Hailwood aboard.
I saw Mike and Ago fight it out numerous times in the late 60s - what a noise! You could hear that Honda screaming up the mountain from miles away.
@@grahamyates2490 Used to go to the Island from '60 - '64 before I emigrated to NZ. Used to go for the Manx as well. Nearly went there to live had a job lined up at Ronaldsway airport but chose NZ instead lol.
@@jack80kiwi I moved to Sydney many years ago but still remember fondly those trips to the Island in June (well, there's bits of them I don't remember too well).
1966 for me. We heard it coming all the way up the mountain to the Bungalow with Hailwood onboard. A sound never to be forgotten.
And that’s why electric will never catch on!
I'll just point out: electric doesn't need 100+ meters to set off, so it doesn't have any catching on to do (that's a joke, I like both)
The noise?
@@luistabotelho 100 meters i think is due to the gearing, so electric might be the same
Pittsed Off,agree!The engine of a motorcycle is in my opinion the soul of the bike!Electric engines missed that sadly!In that era there were very different racing bikes from 1 till 6 and even v8 4strokes and very interesting 2strokes from 1till 4 cylinders too and there were no noise or maximum gear restrictions,no electronic software as traction control,rev limiters,sometimes a very narrow powerband like those 6 in line Honda and the possibility to walk in the pit lanes! Thats why I loved classic races or demo’s!Greetings from the Netherlands!
Moto E is a thing now. It’s only a matter of time.
I’ve battery tech matches refilling times electric will our perform. If you want to win races you go with the best bike.
Isso é música 👏👏👏👏👏👏🤩
Saw John McGuinness riding around Castle Combe race track in 2014 on a replica. I believe they had to get special consent to run it there due to noise limits imposed on the track.
They have it geared up so high that it was almost impossible to do a rolling start..
Yes and? That’s how the game was played.
You can only get so many gears in a box
@@alanthomas9241 if it was final drive gearing then the gears in the box wouldn't change
😂 funny and awesome to watch
The late great Mike Hailwood managed it no problem
That first gear is enormous
I saw Jim Redman on one at Kyalami, with Bruce Beale on the earlier 4.
It's something you can't get out of your head!.
Filmati interessanti,vari,e di qualità.
Perfect machine of all time
When your 250cc bike sounds like an F-1 race car.......music sublime!
Awesome! 👍
Iom: The sound of Honda, Gilera, and MV multis won't go away.
Benelli too Geoff. Renzo Pasellini.
@@exb.r.buckeyeman845 RIP Renzo Pasolini.
@@geoffdearth7360 I was there Geoff, in 68 69 70 71. Camped at Hillberry, never forget the sounds, jumped out of the tent for early morning practice coming down the mountain.
Not forgetting the Benelli,for me, it sounded better than the MV.
My God. Greatest sound ever. Tall first gear!!!
…actual NO first gear. It was damaged so he had to start in second gear.
Beautiful 🥰
ah sweet music to my ears .
remember Mike Hailwood on one of these at Oulton Park. He was coming out of Dear Leap sat up behind Peter Inchley(flat on the tank) on a Villiers. After a few laps Mike overtook him and promptly fell off. Was gutted but then Mike remounted and set off after Inchley again; it was a still day and you could hear that bike wail as Mike gave it some proper stick. It only took a few(glorious sounding) laps for him to catch Peter and this time he didn't fall off. Mike had actually done something similar at one of the small meetings they had in either Spain(Monjuich or Jerez maybe) or Italy just before the Oulton meeting. If only bikes were allowed to sound like this again...
Great story! Mike fell of on many of occasions able to kick the bars straight, tear off any loose parts and continue the race and even win. Heck, he removed a carburator slide entirely so one pot was flat out 100% of the time on his MV 4 in 65' at the senior TT after a high speed wet crash....and won.
He was nicknamed Mike the bike for a good reason........and an Honorable mention please for Mick Doohan and all the men who braved the mighty 500 two strokes........
And you sir, Mr. Bridge are the Chick Hearn of racing journalists. Nice post.
@@pinslayer4579 Yes those two strokes were difficult beasts. A power band narrower than the blade of a swiss army knife but when on song an horrendous power to weight ratio. Those guys were legends.
The Beauty of the Roar
I wonder how available clutch plates are because this bike has none left.
Hailwood would feather the clutch lever only 3 or 4 times before fully engaging it with TT gearing.
They have fuck all torque anyway. I wouldn’t be too worried.
@@ventisette. I have no experience of riding the 250cc RC165 six, but I have done a lot of miles on a 297cc RC174 six, including the TT course. Actually they have a surprisingly linear power/torque delivery, pulling cleanly and strongly from about 6,000 to 17,000 in the case of the RC174. This RC165 would pull from about 6000 to 18,000 where peak power is delivered (17,000 for the RC174 which is longer stroke).
What kind of gearing is that?
Listening to the beat of this beast it took courage Experience and big balls the race her …. Kudos to Hailwood and Redman .
Da paura bellissimo una moto avanti sembra un 2 tempi che ingegneria e che capacità di allora complimento Honda e Honda
My hero. 👍
How tall is First Gear ? Or is the Gearbox Jammed in third .
Beautiful sound
Chris had kinda learnt what to say at these times, and was mimicking what he had heard others say. Well almost. In his broadcast he said "what a noise"!
Which is a bit different than "what a sound!"
Saw the real thing Mike Hailwood against Agostini. Ace.
So did I at brands hatch
Was this the bike hailwood rode sounds completely wicked
Wow ..........were those tiny bikes that High geared back in the day, that you couldn't even get off the line with out slipping the clutch for half a mile or was it badly adjusted? Did sound as though he was trying to get off the line in 3rd.
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍sound!!
It was going about sixty before it even felt comfortable enough to breath ,, what a bike
I used live in Northwich in the sixties which is about ten miles as the crow flies from Oulton park and you could hear the Honda, imagine that now
Did he ever come back ?
No track side videos? Up on the Mountain it prbably sounded great.
It didnt get that far we were waiting at the goosneck I think it expired at union mills
I heard him from new Zealand
Wish i could see & hear it in person. Had a 500cc 3cyl. 2 stroke back in the day. Seems Milo Janis has a point. Would be nice to compare both in person & take them for a ride. That would be very cool.
Do you live in the woulds? Coulds and woulds are illusions. DO IT, before you are gone.
And Harley throttle Jockeys cried a few tears at that brilliance
An electric motorcycle will never sound that good.
Electric bikes already sound better. It just sounded really badly jetted and barely running with a badly slipping clutch and the wrong gearing.
A nice demonstration of your complete lack of knowledge.
I feel sorry for you, publically humiliating your self is never good
Speed!! Rid-ability!! Smoothness!! Sadly..this bike is none of those. Electrics will rule!
@@alanaugust8853 20 mph faster round the mountain course than this thing, and from a standing start.
@Caferacer Wolf snowflakes like John McGuinness, Guy Martin and Bruce Anstey.
Better riders than you, or anyone you've ever met. Now fuck off little man.
What was the top speed ?
Team Obsolete had one at Steamboat Springs when they still had a race there.
That thing reved so fast and so loud it was scary.
Sadly, before we all had in our pockets the ability to record it.
Exactly the same bike..
What a sound indeed!!!🤩💥
Brilliant...Search out Allen Millyard's Honda six - THAT'S loud!!
Alan Millyards honda 'tribute' is an amazing piece of work made by grafting two liquid cooled road bike enignes together. An astonishing achievement, BUT it nowhere near as loud as the real thing... AND it has an idle on the engine and an electric starter. If you let the revs drop on the original Honda 6's (RC165, 166 or 174) below 4000 the engine stops dead as if the ignition has been cut.
Search for the full length 360 vid of this run, it's great, you can pan the camera around while the video is playing.
Yes, it shows Dave Roper revving the bike to 19,000 when static. Brutal and unnecessary of a bike which made peak power at 17,500. The mecanical sympathy of a gorilla.
Monster sound
Everyone quiet. Love that
Rog, from Men in Blazers on microphone?
A little light on the low end torque there
Fed the clutch out well
I saw Hailwood on this bike at Brands Hatch many years ago. You could hear him warming up in the paddock. It sounded like a dog barking.
So did I. Watching from Clearways, on the first lap the bikes all disappeared onto the GP circuit and they were all gone. Suddenly SMB appeared going towards Clearways. There was a long gap before the 2nd rider appeared.
I might be accused of splitting hairs, but the only time Mike Hailwood rode an RC165 was at Suzuka/Japan in 1965 (he won - 1 and a half minutes ahead of second place finisher Isamu Kasuya on another RC165). All the sixes Mike Hailwood rode after that time were RC166 or 174's.
@@Coltnz1 That was our favourite site, Clearways, until they started building great big hospitality suites. And we used to park our bikes along the road just behing the mound.
@@peterg2yt You may be right, It was the bored ot 250 (to 298). He won, Agostini second on the MV, Phil Read third, Bill Ivy Forth, Ray Pickerell fifth.
holly shit. how tall is 1st gear ?
Good lord is 1st gear good for 100mph or something?
80
That beginning should of had Benny Hill playing
The rest was music to my ears
In a thousand years time. Yeah " Honda six and Stonehenge definitely built by aliens."
Just tall geared, anyone who has ridden a two stroke sports bike would know. Yes this is a four banger.
Actually , it is 250cc 6 cylinder 4-stroke . Revs to around a Million RPM . Four Stroke . HONDA . The Four stroke people . They only did the NSR series to stay in the Racing Game .
Scruff that oil off the clutch and she'll probably grab 1st ...
このサウンドは当時の日本の技術の誇りである(*^^)v
これは日本の国の資産の音だと言っても過言ではないでしょう！
It has been described as sounding like an air raid siren.
Not far off, that.
Brutal
observation: Good Grief that's loud. I thought Honda mowers and generators were quiet.
Loud pipes save lifes 😂😂
now that's a killer bee
as it sreams into the distance :-)
How tall is that first gear? 250 yards of clutch slipping before it could run.
80mph in first!
It WASN'T first gear. It had been broken at Jurby a day or two previously when being ridden by Dave Roper. Steve Plater did amazingly well to get it off the start line at all!
Is this the Millyard built six.... ?
I think this one is the real deal.
Man that dry clutch and tall first gear
Pistons the size of a quarter, valves the size of a dime. × 6, honda the innovator!👍👏👌✌
Like starting in 4th gear! My god!!!!
First gear seems to be my 6th!!! OUCH!!
does holding the mic out like that actually help?
a little