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.
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.)
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...
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!
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.
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.