Thankyou for posting these fantastic memorable 500GP races. Barry Sheene, what a legend. Those 500 machines must have been so difficult to ride. Great memories.
3 of the greatest ever, alongside Hailwood, Read, AGO, Surtess, Gardner, Lawson, Sarrinen, Schwantz, Rainey, Doohan, Pedrosa, Stoner, Lorenzo and Marquez, to name a few
Remember watching this live in 1982. Long before the days of cable or satelite tv in the UK. One of the best GP's of the early '80's. Two strokes for me any day. Shame the king retired not long after and Bazza had his accident later this season at Silverstone.
Remember watching this so well, fantastic race with fantastic riders with some many world champions, the push start was crazy. And now I'm watching Roberts grandson - crazy!
Never say Never my friend EssexV6, today we have good riders in the top category of motorcycling, however, they are not "root" like those presented in this video (Sheene, Mamola, Luchinelli, Spencer, Roberts, etc.) and the bikes had an engine 2 times, "monsters", because today, in addition to 4-stroke bikes, we still have aerodynamic and technological devices that help riders. However, as I said above, we have good drivers today ... Especially because dominating bikes of this caliber (500 cc), it is not for everyone.
Back in the summer of 1982 my friends and I all riding RD350's or 400's would spend almost every night racing in the canyons of the Hollywood Hills or on Mulholland Dr. One of the reasons for riding all night was we happen to be night owls but, in reality you could tell when there was oncoming traffic around blind corners by the headlights so it was easier to tell when we could use the whole road. The only time we stopped was for fuel. I'm pretty sure that every resident for miles around and the police hated us.
Love it, used to do similar but in different ways , Macpherson street racing in Sydney Australia, up from the beach , through chicane up to the roundabout and back, residents coming out to have a word, all very polite , happy days . Bit different in my home village, am sure the neighbours have orchestrated the theft of our motocross bikes , I joked on the village WhatsApp group that our bikes reminded the neighbours of the church bells ringing , one person was ready to lynch me there and then, I thought time for me to leave . As Shakespeare said , All the world is a race track, and all the men and women are merely racers..
So sad that Barry had his massive crash in Silverstone in the Summer.. '82 was his most credible chance to retake the championship crown until that stage. When he received the V4 he would have been even more motivated. Lamentable.
Agreed, the fact he didn't have the best bike but was riding so well really made it look like a return to the top was on the cards. Then the Silverstone crash, I can still remember being devastated on hearing the news of that accident.
*I had a 1989 RG500 'C' Series Pepsi Suzuki one of the last made, (Frame Number HM31 106277 no 873 of CH Models) and rode it hard including Track Days at Oulton, Cadwell and Mallory Park but was classed as up to 1000cc Class, managed to keep up on corners, but Honda's Blackbirds beat me on acceleration - however finished 3rd so considered a Win at Cadwell Park ! However sold it eventually as it was either going to Kill Me or get Nicked for Speeding to a Guy from Sweden at a huge Profit Today in Mint Condition [as mine was] with low Mileage worth in excess of £20k and appreciating rapidly no doubt ! - I Did a trip from the UK to Switzerland including all [or most] of the Alpine Passes and the Bike was a dream and cruised at 65 mph in 6th gear at around 3500 rpm with ease !*
You calling him Freddie and waking up to the fact he doubled the 500 &250 championship made me laugh 😊 Spencer was on top of his game on the best bike by far in both category on that year. Ok it.s great but it’s happened several times before, John Surtees won the 500 and 350cc world titles the same year 3 times in a row… and went on to be a formula 1 world champion.
Poor you. You are almost dead by now. Did you do those stupid drugs, so popular in eighties and nineties? It was alcohol, was it? Hundreds of gallons a year? Brain dead? Haha, I was 16 years old!
The bikes were bad. Oldfashioned. Buy a bike today, it is faster. The television had only 20 pixels. Why the F did we watch this shit? Buying a ticket to Argentina, watching it yourself, would be far better.
yo estuve en el talud y te ponia la piel de gallina cuando venian los tres juntos inolvidable carrera con legendas de la velocidad como sheene spencer roberts
Estive nessa corrida com um grupo de brasileiros. O Paulinho Baixaria, se vestiu de macacão de couro e entramos no carro (taxi), como se fosse piloto. (piloto de la carretera, piloto de la carretera e fomos entrandokkkkkkk)...Muito engraçado o finado Paulinho Baixaria, Paulão Cintura Alta, Birigui, José Cohen e outras figuraças, amantes do motociclismo e da Velha Rua Augusta de SP....Bons tempos!!!
Great video! Thanks for posting. Today's riders couldn't ride the bikes in this race...they would high-side, and be done. Too much reliance on computer riding aids. MEH.
Men were men and they rode two strokes! The racers these days couldn't handle volatile eruption of the Power Band and precipitate traction to the track, a different era and motorcycle racing that few people can understand! These guys rode dragons and should be held as the greatest that has ever been! The camaraderie and competitiveness between Barry and Kenny where things of Legends are made of!
Barry should have had the British bulldog 🇬🇧 graphic on his helmet instead of that duck, Barry just got amongst it and put up a great scrap.RIP Barry, an inspiration to so many, now you got Murry Walker up there with you, like to be a fly on the wall for that one.
An emptiness of talent? Have you heard about this italian kid, Valentino Rossi? And Max Biaggi, Sete Gibernau, Loris Capirossi, Kenny Roberts jr, Kevin Schwants, Wayne Rainey, Wayne Gardner...??? Yeah, a roaring emptiness of talent.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 i have Heard about them all....as I have followed bikes Championship since 1979.. I meant "emptiness of talent" since 2000. I did not write anything against Gardner, Schwantz, etc. But since Doohan left in 1999, until 2006, for me , there was no talent. Gibernau, Capirossi, Max....I cant consider them top Riders. And about Vale , no Matter how many titles he has, It was the result of not having good rivals. When Pedrosa, Lorenzo, Stoner...then Márquez...then Viñales...now Fabio, Mir, Rins, Bagnalia, ...came....he was beaten by all of them, putting things into the right perspective. Of course, It IS a personal opinión
First race of that season & Barry didn’t have time to get his JPS leathers so had to use his old Akai leathers with the sponsor blanked out, them were the days 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
I ask the question will there ever by another American World Champion since these legends and the late Nicky Hayden... I feel that there won't be... The USA is just not wired to put out top racers as was back in the days... Well, one can hope and pray! Thanks for preserving a golden era... God Bless †
At the moment Spain and Italy does a lot of youth-work to get the kids out on the road racing circuits. As they are the only one, my guess is that they’ll continue their dominance.
The power band is not as narrow as many people think. I raced a TZ350 in the early 80s. It was pretty horrible to ride because of the narrow power band until an ace Yamaha race mechanic by the name of Warren Willing advised me to change about 6 things in the carbys. It was amazing the difference it made. It would pull out of a corner like a 4 stroke from about 6500rpm and still have good power to redline.
I was wondering why Mang’s Kawasaki didn’t have dual disks. Then the commentator said it was a 352. I didn’t know you could even enter unless it was a 500.
@@ewennicolson4342 True, probably not many! In Classic Racer some time ago Chas Mortimer (who won that first 500cc GP for Yamaha on a 351 twin) IIRC he admitted the bike had seized in practice and the factory had no more overbored cylinders it pistons so fitted a standard size reducing cc on one cylinder to 174cc, so that twin was probably under 351cc.
It was the time when the pilots had no electronic or other help, you had to have a "big heart" to pilot these "monsters", a 500 two-stroke was far from easy to dominate. No offense to some ;-) C'était le temps où les pilotes n'avaient aucune aide électronique ou autre, il fallait avoir un "gros coeur" pour piloter ces "monstres", une 500 deux temps était loin d'être facile à dominer. N'en déplaise à certains ;-)
Why did they ride bikes with a duo seat, in those years? Was that a racing class? TWO macho's on a racing bike? Those huge bikes look weird. I do not be believe this was only 40 years ago. It looks like medieval bikes.
❤ absolutely Gold , Barry riding his xxxxx off, this should have been his year, never forget you Barry, think about you most weeks , rip
Thankyou for posting these fantastic memorable 500GP races. Barry Sheene, what a legend. Those 500 machines must have been so difficult to ride. Great memories.
Phenomenal riders!! Roberts, Sheene, and Spencer!!
3 of the greatest ever, alongside Hailwood, Read, AGO, Surtess, Gardner, Lawson, Sarrinen, Schwantz, Rainey, Doohan, Pedrosa, Stoner, Lorenzo and Marquez, to name a few
Remember watching this live in 1982. Long before the days of cable or satelite tv in the UK. One of the best GP's of the early '80's. Two strokes for me any day. Shame the king retired not long after and Bazza had his accident later this season at Silverstone.
En Argentina ya existía la tv por cable y satelital en ese año ? Tan atrasado estaban en el reino unido ? Saludo desde Canadá
Excellent camera work and yet another great duel between Roberts and Sheene.
Thanks for posting it!
RIP sheene
Remember watching this so well, fantastic race with fantastic riders with some many world champions, the push start was crazy. And now I'm watching Roberts grandson - crazy!
当時見たくても見られなかった貴重な映像をありがとうございます
Amazing young Spencer and new Honda machine!
Just started to watch these old races. Fantastic.
これは貴重な映像を見せて頂けて感謝です！ キングケニー 英雄バリー・シーン ファースト・フレディ 前年王者の伊達男ルッキネリ レジェンド同士のガチンコバトル！！ ヤマハはこの頃から始動性が悪く後から追い上げてくる。 バリーとの競り合いが影響したのか、フレディはタイヤをタレさせてしまったが、ケニーは後半までタイヤを持たせながら追い上げ、しかも最終的には勝ってしまった。恐るべきタイヤマネージメント！
記録では色々あってウンチーニがスズキでチャンピオン マモラはこの時から惜しくもランキング２位が多い。
ケニーが3年連続のチャンピオンを獲ったあたりの映像資料も見たいです。
そして伝説の83年でさえシーズン全戦の映像は入手困難、私はなんとか84年と85年をＶＨＳで集めましたが所々抜けています。
初めて見れた！
ホンダが2ｽﾄNS500を本格投入した年だ、フレディのリアタイヤが映像でも解る通りデカすぎて、この頃はリア18インチなのでしっくり来てないのが走りでも解る。83年にリア16インチにして覚醒する。しかしケニーとバリーの2大巨頭相手に3気筒マシンでココまで出来るのは凄いわ。
Superb race Barry happy memories. We'll never see the like again😢😢😢
Never say Never my friend EssexV6, today we have good riders in the top category of motorcycling, however, they are not "root" like those presented in this video (Sheene, Mamola, Luchinelli, Spencer, Roberts, etc.) and the bikes had an engine 2 times, "monsters", because today, in addition to 4-stroke bikes, we still have aerodynamic and technological devices that help riders. However, as I said above, we have good drivers today ...
Especially because dominating bikes of this caliber (500 cc), it is not for everyone.
Back in the summer of 1982 my friends and I all riding RD350's or 400's would spend almost every night racing in the canyons of the Hollywood Hills or on Mulholland Dr. One of the reasons for riding all night was we happen to be night owls but, in reality you could tell when there was oncoming traffic around blind corners by the headlights so it was easier to tell when we could use the whole road. The only time we stopped was for fuel. I'm pretty sure that every resident for miles around and the police hated us.
Love it, used to do similar but in different ways , Macpherson street racing in Sydney Australia, up from the beach , through chicane up to the roundabout and back, residents coming out to have a word, all very polite , happy days . Bit different in my home village, am sure the neighbours have orchestrated the theft of our motocross bikes , I joked on the village WhatsApp group that our bikes reminded the neighbours of the church bells ringing , one person was ready to lynch me there and then, I thought time for me to leave . As Shakespeare said , All the world is a race track, and all the men and women are merely racers..
Brings back great memories! Thank you for posting!
So sad that Barry had his massive crash in Silverstone in the Summer.. '82 was his most credible chance to retake the championship crown until that stage. When he received the V4 he would have been even more motivated. Lamentable.
Agreed, the fact he didn't have the best bike but was riding so well really made it look like a return to the top was on the cards. Then the Silverstone crash, I can still remember being devastated on hearing the news of that accident.
I think ThE 82 Championship was reserved for Barry. He would have won in silverstone
Classic racing... thank you.
Many thanks yds, great memories, Bazza right up the front!
*I had a 1989 RG500 'C' Series Pepsi Suzuki one of the last made, (Frame Number HM31 106277 no 873 of CH Models) and rode it hard including Track Days at Oulton, Cadwell and Mallory Park but was classed as up to 1000cc Class, managed to keep up on corners, but Honda's Blackbirds beat me on acceleration - however finished 3rd so considered a Win at Cadwell Park ! However sold it eventually as it was either going to Kill Me or get Nicked for Speeding to a Guy from Sweden at a huge Profit Today in Mint Condition [as mine was] with low Mileage worth in excess of £20k and appreciating rapidly no doubt ! - I Did a trip from the UK to Switzerland including all [or most] of the Alpine Passes and the Bike was a dream and cruised at 65 mph in 6th gear at around 3500 rpm with ease !*
Freddie went on to win two world championships in the same year ?! Absolutely incredible n will never be repeated.
You calling him Freddie and waking up to the fact he doubled the 500 &250 championship made me laugh 😊 Spencer was on top of his game on the best bike by far in both category on that year. Ok it.s great but it’s happened several times before, John Surtees won the 500 and 350cc world titles the same year 3 times in a row… and went on to be a formula 1 world champion.
And Hailwood won 250 and 350 championships in '66 and '67.
1985, I believe
@@superwrench9445 Giacomo Agostini won multiple classes in the same year more than Surtees.
@@jamesdoust6975 sure was he F1 champion too?
Pure racing. Thanks for sharing this race.
I'm was here...with 14 years old! Roberts... my God!
Poor you. You are almost dead by now. Did you do those stupid drugs, so popular in eighties and nineties? It was alcohol, was it? Hundreds of gallons a year? Brain dead? Haha, I was 16 years old!
The bikes were bad. Oldfashioned. Buy a bike today, it is faster. The television had only 20 pixels. Why the F did we watch this shit? Buying a ticket to Argentina, watching it yourself, would be far better.
yo estuve en el talud y te ponia la piel de gallina cuando venian los tres juntos inolvidable carrera con legendas de la velocidad como sheene spencer roberts
si yo tambien estuve en la horquilla, el dia anterior estive en la recta y no los veias...
Debe ser impresionante
@@pabloperez4063 sin duda para mi un antes y un despues en el mundo del motociclismo
The beauty of it all ,AWESOME .
You did a great job!
NS500 of debut year?
Barry Sheene also.
世界遺産級の映像！！見られる事に感謝！
How very dare you
tous les héros de la vitesse sont la merci pour la vidéo
Glad You Enjoyed It .
Two current multi time champions and a future multi champion in a ding-dong of a race!
Well done King Bazz!!
Parabéns gostei do vídeo.
Nice racing!
Go on Barry my son,good ole Barry having a large portion of GIT SUM 😄😎 R.I.P BAZZA
Estive nessa corrida com um grupo de brasileiros. O Paulinho Baixaria, se vestiu de macacão de couro e entramos no carro (taxi), como se fosse piloto. (piloto de la carretera, piloto de la carretera e fomos entrandokkkkkkk)...Muito engraçado o finado Paulinho Baixaria, Paulão Cintura Alta, Birigui, José Cohen e outras figuraças, amantes do motociclismo e da Velha Rua Augusta de SP....Bons tempos!!!
Graeme Crosby later switched to cars mostly racing in touring car races in New Zealand and Australia
Great video! Thanks for posting. Today's riders couldn't ride the bikes in this race...they would high-side, and be done. Too much reliance on computer riding aids. MEH.
yo estuve ahi.... gran carrera gran dia..
Men were men and they rode two strokes! The racers these days couldn't handle volatile eruption of the Power Band and precipitate traction to the track, a different era and motorcycle racing that few people can understand! These guys rode dragons and should be held as the greatest that has ever been! The camaraderie and competitiveness between Barry and Kenny where things of Legends are made of!
Freddie is just sooo smooooooth.
Barry should have had the British bulldog 🇬🇧 graphic on his helmet instead of that duck, Barry just got amongst it and put up a great scrap.RIP Barry, an inspiration to so many, now you got Murry Walker up there with you, like to be a fly on the wall for that one.
BELLISSIMO....VERO MOTOCICLISMO....NIENTE ELETTRONICA SOLO MANICO!!
Your Caps-Lock is stuck. Again. Maybe you should F yourself. Buy a new keyboard! Fool!
Awesome race.
8 world championship s in the podium! 3 of the greatest pilotos ever
I was here... with ventino rossi... back that's year I was 13 and rossi 12 years...
28 marzo 1982
Superb
The end of the old era Sheen and Roberts and hello to spenser and mamola. Next year Lawson and Gardner
And then Rainey and Schwantz....then Doohan
@@billymc2681 then, an emptiness of talent...until Stoner, Lorenzo, Marquéz, etc....
An emptiness of talent?
Have you heard about this italian kid, Valentino Rossi?
And Max Biaggi, Sete Gibernau, Loris Capirossi, Kenny Roberts jr, Kevin Schwants, Wayne Rainey, Wayne Gardner...??? Yeah, a roaring emptiness of talent.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 i have Heard about them all....as I have followed bikes Championship since 1979..
I meant "emptiness of talent" since 2000. I did not write anything against Gardner, Schwantz, etc.
But since Doohan left in 1999, until 2006, for me , there was no talent. Gibernau, Capirossi, Max....I cant consider them top Riders. And about Vale , no Matter how many titles he has, It was the result of not having good rivals. When Pedrosa, Lorenzo, Stoner...then Márquez...then Viñales...now Fabio, Mir, Rins, Bagnalia, ...came....he was beaten by all of them, putting things into the right perspective. Of course, It IS a personal opinión
So nice to see!!!!!
Sheen was smooth, if not held up ...who knows. Class example for us riders.
Good stuff right here. Should televise this instead of 'NASCRAP"
very cool Sunkus🐱
Moto gp wasn't around till the four strokes appeared. It was just called motorcycle grand prix.
An TON MANG
... Was he riding a kawa 351 cc?
5,30
i wanted a v4 two stroke so bad back then
I used to think 4-strokes are shit. But as I got older I began to know for sure.
First race of that season & Barry didn’t have time to get his JPS leathers so had to use his old Akai leathers with the sponsor blanked out, them were the days 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
This was back when Bike-racing was REAL RACING!!! No more than HOLD THE HELL ON an PRAY!!! Lol.
I ask the question will there ever by another American World Champion since these legends and the late Nicky Hayden... I feel that there won't be... The USA is just not wired to put out top racers as was back in the days... Well, one can hope and pray! Thanks for preserving a golden era... God Bless †
At the moment Spain and Italy does a lot of youth-work to get the kids out on the road racing circuits. As they are the only one, my guess is that they’ll continue their dominance.
Food for thought, today's 600 cc street bikes are the same size with the same horse power
But not the same weight, fairly sure those old race bikes are really light weight in comparison.
@@paulvoak6683 290 lbs at 200 horse power
Even more power...cos 120 4St with a plane curve are much more effective. A CBR IS 171 kg....these GP could be 125 kg.
Some advantage for the GP
KING Kenny Roberts !
Fast Freddie and Magic Sheene
I'm amazed that push starts were used for so long considering how inherently dangerous they are! 😬
Thanks some footage of barry on the yamaha 500cc which he didnt like an went back to syzuki next year again
これまた珍しい映像❣️
スペンサーとバリーシーンの新旧対決は面白い
天才、帝王、走る生傷男!!
Yo estuve ahi!
Proper, proper racing. How can anybody compare the procession that is F1, to THIS. Epic
片山氏は6位だったようですがほぼ映ってませんね😢
熱い！なんつー突っ込みだ！
Respect totally to these guys, in today's racing world anyone else think these seemed like warm up laps with speeds the likes of 2019 machines ?
KING Kenny
Given what was going on in the Falklands, I'm surprised Sheene even was allowed by both sides to even be there?
😊
Narrow power band, no rider aids, no launch control, no tyre warmers , just honest balls out ,skilled racing.
The power band is not as narrow as many people think. I raced a TZ350 in the early 80s. It was pretty horrible to ride because of the narrow power band until an ace Yamaha race mechanic by the name of Warren Willing advised me to change about 6 things in the carbys. It was amazing the difference it made. It would pull out of a corner like a 4 stroke from about 6500rpm and still have good power to redline.
👍
What a dangerous way to start a GP race.
GP is a danger. From star to end....
82’アルゼンチン名バトル。初めてちゃんと見れました。ケニーの最終ラップの周回遅れとの接触。今の時代なら審議やろなww
スペンサーが右コーナー侵入前のブレーキングで右足を結構出している時って、あれリアブレーキは踏んでるんかな？
踏んでます。凄く上手に というかリアタイやのホッピングを抑える程度しか効かないようにセッティングされているそうです。
racersのns500特集の記事にありました。
ウンチーニがチャンピオンに成った年だなァ。
確か5勝してウンチーニはチャンピオン、片山敬済もスェーデンだと思ったけど1勝を得たシーズンだったかと。
Kok start pakai kaki wkwkkw
I was wondering why Mang’s Kawasaki didn’t have dual disks. Then the commentator said it was a 352. I didn’t know you could even enter unless it was a 500.
500cc class meant 351-500cc.
Yamaha won their first 500cc GP with a twin cylinder MC of 351cc
When entered back in the 350 class it would be machines from 251 to 349 (or 350) cc
Even in 1994 Aprilia had a 400cc two-cylinder bike in the 500 class with Reggiani ;)
@@keithdawson4804 How many of those 351's you reckon were just 350 machines with the fairing switched? :p
@@ewennicolson4342
True, probably not many!
In Classic Racer some time ago Chas Mortimer (who won that first 500cc GP for Yamaha on a 351 twin) IIRC he admitted the bike had seized in practice and the factory had no more overbored cylinders it pistons so fitted a standard size reducing cc on one cylinder to 174cc, so that twin was probably under 351cc.
esto eran carreras de verdad
Ahora también....ve Assen 2018
@@pabloperez4063 son imbeciles, no te gastes
It was the time when the pilots had no electronic or other help, you had to have a "big heart" to pilot these "monsters", a 500 two-stroke was far from easy to dominate. No offense to some ;-)
C'était le temps où les pilotes n'avaient aucune aide électronique ou autre, il fallait avoir un "gros coeur" pour piloter ces "monstres", une 500 deux temps était loin d'être facile à dominer. N'en déplaise à certains ;-)
フレデイの突っ込み すげぇ！
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🏁🏁🏁I recommend that you look through to the end🏎️🏎️🏎️
0:49 💟💚💚
👇 👇 👇 👇💯
Two stroke 500s need to come back i dont watch gp racing anymore its fucking shit
Okay
Sheene wasn't even riding works machinery as far as I know.
I didn't understand why Sheene couldn't get a factory ride at this stage in his career.
Yamaha stupids
Has Suzuki ever had a fast bike?
Well they did in 1981 and 1982 because the riders took the world title's in those years.
@@stephenwilliams926 76 and 77 too with Barry winning the championships
Kenny Robert's was always a bully
Sheene or pair, Mamola 👆👆✔️💯💙💕, Spencer toujours aussi CON, 2022 👇👇👈👉☝️💛💙
Ridiculous circuit. I don't think it is still in operation
Randy Mamola muerto viviente le decían, daba miedo verle en la moto, ahora es Marquez el que da miedo, va to loco.
No podes comparar, Mamola era un genio
@@sigma7568 ahí está el palmares de cada uno
Why did they ride bikes with a duo seat, in those years? Was that a racing class? TWO macho's on a racing bike? Those huge bikes look weird. I do not be believe this was only 40 years ago. It looks like medieval bikes.
Many thanks yds, great memories, Bazza right up the front!