Vintage vid thread

budman

General Menace
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I will start it off with The story of of seventies superbikes since that was my era as a first time street rider and many of these bikes were fapping material to a teenage lad. Not a bad vid.


youtu.be/HESIjHvOjtw
 

S21FOLGORE

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Kawasaki 750turbo Promo film


youtu.be/Lq6kK7lfUJc

I used to have this one, until I bought S4R.
(I also had GPZ900R, too.)



Back in the mid 90s, in the sea of CBR 600 F2 and F3, I built this from (pretty much bone stock) 1985 Kawasaki 750 turbo, with 1995 ZX-9R B2’s running gear, and a bit from here, a bit from there. (watch first Mad Max movie, if you haven’t.)



Wanted to retain the original look of the 80s air cooled GPz, but wanted to run modern tires, brakes and suspension.
Back page of the Performance Bike (Reader’s Special) and Streetfighter magazine were huge influence on me , back then. (Oh, and Mad Max ...)
The craziness just kept on going and going ... adjustable waste gate (dial-a-boost kit), HKS blow-off pressure valve on serge tank, “modified ECU”, adjustable fuel pressure regulator, I even took the engine apart and rebuilt it with all new seals and bearings.

And I kept on putting gadgets like radar detector, air-fuel ratio monitor, the list goes on and on. I was even thinking about installing NOS kit, (I must have had Max’s intercepter and Knight 2000 somewhere back in my mind.)
 

EastBayDave

- Kawasaki Fanatic -
lost count of how many races Teammate Richard Oliver flat left me on the new Richmond Kawasaki 900 Ninja. He/it would just pull away for the win; me on the new GPz1100 would just get a (yawn) lonely ride for 2nd/3rd...
 

budman

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Where's the Budman/RG500/KSJO promo?

Unfortunately the film was lost. :twofinger

As always thanks to Jan Michael Vincent for playing me though. Heard it led to him playing a Tarzan character in a Disney film :p








:laughing
 

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plaid

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I can see that several hours will need to be set aside to properly enjoy this page. Thanks to all.:teeth
 

budman

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Old MX race action. Suzuki guys look like one of the few that actually have uniforms so to speak.
At times it looks like just a bunch of locals out racing!


youtu.be/jzz-i8h4g54

and early SX action.
Note the huge change in the gear worn in 8 years time.


youtu.be/7XVTmQwkd2A

Later MX GP action from the USA -- Wide World of Sports was about the only place to catch MX on TV.
Bad Brad was featured on the show and a very very young Jim Lampley was featured as a broadcaster.
Wish I made it down there for one of these. I did ride the track with the Suzuki Official School of MX in '82.

All hail the privateer! :flag


youtu.be/pywBDBd-plE
 

budman

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Some vintage flat track stuff.

I was in SJ for this event.


youtu.be/MVIqaxAZvNY

Wide World of Sports did a little flat track too.

SJ Race of Champions. Announcers Joe Leonard SJ legend and Keith Jackson (hoooo nellllly!) This was not a National event so a lot of localish guys from California. If you go to the 1970 Ascot race below you will notice they used a yellow flag for the last lap... so I guess they changed that in '71 and started to use the white to signify one to go.


youtu.be/j9Vhb7N5lp8

Ascot Park TT - 1970

youtu.be/FswIuIVnCCo

10 years later we have another SJ Mile.

A young Springer, Kid, Gary Scott, his brother Hank, Randy Goss who would go on to win the Championship, Corky Keener (HOF member this year), a personal fave Ricky Graham,Poovey, Romero, Steve Eklund, 18 yo Scott Parker and more OG Pro's!

youtu.be/hmYdE_4CRDk

and 11 years later back to SJ!!


youtu.be/NBbujOhn_kI

youtu.be/qAXPLemPsiY
 
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