TZ750 Dirt Tracker
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- About a TZ750 Dirt Tracker & a World Champion Roadracer.
Theme music by Mark Knopfler, from the movie "Cal", available on Vertigo Records
"Steve Baker" "TZ 750" "OW 31" "TZ 750 dirt tracker" "champion frame" "Yamaha Motor Canada"
Baker was one of my idols!! Thanks for this great video!!
Whoaw! Steve Baker! Thanks Dan!
Super cool , gives me goose bumps and I can smell two stroke race gas like it was right in my shop , just before your phone died I was imagining him coming out of a turn with the bike breaking loose and helmet tucked eye level with the bars and the front tire offset and off the pavement as if they had traction control back then ! Great stuff
Thanks for sharing
Every year like the Mission Swallows of Capistrano my friends and I would venture out to Laguna Seca to see the yearly M/C Road Race spectacle. Being a King Kenny fan my friends and I were blown away by Steve Baker's breaking abilities keeping his rear wheel about one inch off the ground when coming into the last corner before the straightaway. These were the days where you could park and camp anywhere on the track, the moment word got out Steve Baker was going to be at Laguna Seca we knew to be there 2 days ahead at that dusty dirt hill to camp out or miss out on all the Steve Baker braking circus.. Steve was a pioneer, which is now common. I always admired Steve Baker. Sincerely Dan
Thanks for the great story. Although I grew up near Mosport, I didn't have the sense to follow road racing; MX just seemed more accessible. But I knew Steve was something special (massive understatement) even then. At the Yamaha Motor Canada HQ in Toronto, I not only got to sit on one of his bikes, but I held a handful of titanium screws that Bob Work was going to install to replace the regular screws in the engine cases and elsewhere. At that time, titanium was only something you read about in magazines. As a neophyte mechanic, this seems like a big deal. Now they make mundane things like eyeglasses out of the stuff. thanks again for recounting your story. Great memories!
I used to watch him when he rode in transatlantic trophy in the late 70's Olton Park Raceway UK .A hero of mine when I was a kid.
I actually asked Giacomo Agostini (who was between me and Steve) to get Sreve Baker's autograph in a pub in Silverstone village. Steve Baker and King Kenny were my heroes in the late '70's very early '80's. Fantastic memories.
My favorite rider... THE GREAT STEVE BAKER!!!! 💕💕💕🏆🏆🏆
You’re so lucky . We owned Hampton County Sport Center in SC. Yamaha Triumph BMW so I raced all my life. I became a flight attendant so I got to race all over the US. I even used my NY layovers to visit Team Obsolete and touch the guts of the 250 6. My best times were the vintage races and having to race with Dick Mann and Don Vesco. Vesco family gave me parts for my SC500 MX and Champion flat tracker. Billy 747
i bought gloves from him november 2023 at mt.baker motorsports .he wants to be a regular guy but im still star sruck . he took time to sell me gloves .
Un dirt tryk,s'est mr Roberts le meilleur avec un w 45 Harley 💕💕💕🇮🇲🇮🇲🤩
lovely memories and lovely story mate, good on you. 🤜
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Good to hear the story of your meeting with Steve and that he's a good guy and has time for a chat about the motorcycle past you shared a true champion still
Never heard of him but he’s got lovely hand writing.
It's the least interesting thing about the man, but, nice to hear from the graphologists out there. ;-)
He was darn fast !!!
That first bit of cold idle is the 2nd toughest idles bar an AFD back when they ran 100%nitro.
Great rider .
Great story 😊
great video thank you
Bellingham wa. Bakers from. Robert's said it was the scariest thing he ever rode. Tz. 750 Dead last from the last corner to win the race.
Robert's commentary (and bravery) are legendary. No many know that Baker also rode the thing, though he didn't get that much seat time. That bike is so gorgeous!
@@360Crank Dirt version rare. I remember motorcycle film called taking it to the limit. Saw it a movie theater.85. It showed a lap of Mike Hailwood on a tz 750 riding with old school bus sized camera his helmet was miked. He was talking as he's driving the course. He's going up the mountain. Fog so heavy barely see the shoulder stripes.cant see 10' in front of you. He's say. I know this part of the course very well I'm going around 150- 160 mph. Like a Sunday drive. Amazing.
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He wasn't dead last in the last corner. Let's not make things up.
Baker was very fast....