Ah, road racing in Europe. I was an avid reader of Cycle magazine about this time, in high school and with a new 200cc German made two-stroke (which served me well btw). But, our road racing in the U.S. had the likes of Brad Andres, Joe Leonard, Carrol Resweber on Harleys, putting feet down in the corners and basically adapting dirt-track style to pavement racing. What a comparison. We did have Jody Nicholas who rode a BSA Gold Star as I recall, and he was getting in there with more of a European approach.
Thanks for watching and commenting @whalesong999 glad you enjoyed the video! Got more to upload soon including the 1960 Thruxton 6 Hour, so please subscribe to get the notification when this drops! 🙂 This was a Cine film that my late father (on the Gold Star intro video and the reason why ‘47’ has become our number 🙂) had shot.. it was converted to digital a few years ago and too good not to share! I would love to pin point the actual year and confirm some riders (work in progress!)
Cheers Simon, it was converted straight off the Cine Film - could have been the projector speed I guess?, I’ll have a play with the original digital - do you have any tips? Cheers and thanks for watching, I’ve got more to upload soon, so please follow and subscribe for updates..cheers, Steve.
@@47bikeshed I studied the motions of the flag man at the start to assess a realistic speed. Subjective, I know, but went with what felt most "comfortable".
Ah, road racing in Europe. I was an avid reader of Cycle magazine about this time, in high school and with a new 200cc German made two-stroke (which served me well btw). But, our road racing in the U.S. had the likes of Brad Andres, Joe Leonard, Carrol Resweber on Harleys, putting feet down in the corners and basically adapting dirt-track style to pavement racing. What a comparison. We did have Jody Nicholas who rode a BSA Gold Star as I recall, and he was getting in there with more of a European approach.
Thanks for watching and commenting @whalesong999 glad you enjoyed the video! Got more to upload soon including the 1960 Thruxton 6 Hour, so please subscribe to get the notification when this drops! 🙂
This was a Cine film that my late father (on the Gold Star intro video and the reason why ‘47’ has become our number 🙂) had shot.. it was converted to digital a few years ago and too good not to share! I would love to pin point the actual year and confirm some riders (work in progress!)
this needs to be played at double speed to be correct.
Good call but 1.5 feels ok to me.
Cheers Simon, it was converted straight off the Cine Film - could have been the projector speed I guess?, I’ll have a play with the original digital - do you have any tips? Cheers and thanks for watching, I’ve got more to upload soon, so please follow and subscribe for updates..cheers, Steve.
@@47bikeshed I studied the motions of the flag man at the start to assess a realistic speed. Subjective, I know, but went with what felt most "comfortable".
@whalesong999 Thanks! That’s a really good tip! People movements are much easier to gauge speed 🙂