Norton 750 Commando Wins Daytona
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- On board video with Doug MacRae as I take my 1972 Norton 750 Commando to the AHRMA BEARS win at Daytona International Speedway on March 2, 2009. I trade spots with class champ Kenny Cummings a few times and then sit behind him, waiting to try my draft and pass on the last lap but don't have to try as Kenny runs wide coming out of the horseshoe and I get to cruise home for the win. Special thanks to Walridge Motors and Herb Becker.
Really wonderful to see these great machines being properly thrashed and not mollycoddled. Awesome racing.
One Good view with excellent music !😍
Thanks a lot!
Thank You Doug for your effort so we can "ride along", my first Norton was a '69 Commando 'S' back in 1970, and as I "ripped" through the front range Rockies in Colorado, I liked to think that I was riding like in your video, but, alas, it was all in my mind.
Had a yellow 70 750. Loved it but couldn't ride like that.
Had a yellow 70 750. Loved it but couldn't ride like that.
What a beautiful sound , who'd have thought this was an owd norton twin 🤞
I watched this again. And, again, I need to go lie quietly in a cool, darkened room for a while. What a RIDE!!
well all right! Thanks Bruce!
@@DouglasLMacRae One quick question, please. What was the purpose of the two different groups at the start? Thanks, B
@@brucebear1 Hey Bruce! They often grid multiple classes together, depending on the number of entries- In this case we had 350 GP in front of us
That's a beast
Yes it is!
Just reminiscing by flicking though youtube vids and listening to old Commandos - my 72 750 with a combat motor had incredibly small (and empty) "silencers" and the girlfriend occasionally complained of the sheer amount of exhaust noise she had to put up with - as I listen to this I am slightly more sympathetic than I was 30 years ago...
Only slightly more sympathetic...?!?
Wow that was mad
Thanks James!
Some bike and some rider! Great.
Thanks a lot!
that sounds nasty mean,a snortin Norton.Sounds like my 1968 Norton P11 with straight dunstall pipes and no mufflers.
Yea! Sound is a bit distorted I will admit on this old GoPro camera I used at the time...
top shelf
LOL! more lines in the sky than on the track. Nice ride,
Wow, the engine is fully throttle resistant.
great vid what where your revs at that speed?
revving to 7200rpm, They had the radar out this day and they clocked me only once but got 129mph
Douglas, what was your speed along the front straight?
I had the radar gun on me one lap and it showed 129 mph that lap.
Great video. How many racing miles did you get before the rod broke ?
The Flying Scotsman (]8^ )
Kenny who ?????
Scott And Andrea MacKenzie
McCormick. ... Kenny 'El Pollo Loco' McCormick.