health and safety ! did you not notice the helmets , race marshalls its not health and safety its insurance driven measures to mitigate loss through claims its still the same in the factory i work in all the " improvements " came from insurance inspections i have been a race marshall at thruxton and i work in sheet metal
Absolutely!I was a big fan of Blue Peter back in the sixties/early seventies and John was my favourite presenter.He was game for anything and seemed fearless to me.I always remember him scaling Nelson's Column with just a rope tied around his waist.You didn't hear many presenters with regional accents on the telly back then either.
Noaksy was just brilliant.. These where the days before health and safety ruined fun for everyone.. Just love John's shirt, white plimsolls and wooly hat under his lid. 🤣🤣🤣. Get down Shep.. 🏁🏁🏁
Get over yourself, health and safety regulations exist to protect the average worker from exploitation and danger of ruthless bosses. Health and safety has saved millions from death and maiming and a miserable existence of poverty and pain. If you want to race that's still going on all over the world, check out Goodwood or the TT.
You can still do nuts stuff I've been a caver, climber, winter climbing in the mountains, MTBer, recumbent rider .,...... all H&E does is give an excuse to those who'd never do it anyway.
and just think, John & these lads fathers fought the war and bombed the dams in cotton overalls and leather helmets..... imagine what they thought of wearing a fibre glass helmets and having to sign a membership waver ;)
Utter classic Blue Peter. John Noakes Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton (then later Leslie Judd). John was game for absolutely everything. He truly loved Shep as well. I don't think we'll see the like of this again.
Love John Noaks,He was always up to any challenge, Never pretentious or big head, Just got on with it, Always laughing and joking a great man missed RIP john, 😄🇬🇧👍
To the person/people in charge of BBC Archive, can you invite me round so I can look at all the archival footage? As no offence, but watching this clip makes me insanely jealous of the amount of content that's still left to be uncovered and makes me want to unlock my inner Adam Curtis. Thanks for putting this stuff out there, and once again, I am happy to come by at any point.
Absolute hero, best children's presenter by a country mile.A man in what was then predominantly a man's world dare I say. Most of today's pc presenters wouldn't be capable of holding his Jacket 😁. His free fall parachute jump with the red devils was my favourite, and at the time claimed a new civilian record, what a man👍.
John Noaks was an absolute legend, looking back at it now he always seemed to get the dangerous presenting jobs which I must admit used to love watching when I was a child..Who could forget his beloved dog and companion Shep..Get down Shep..😅 Happy days and memories..❤
I used to race with the North Gloucester Club in the 1990's at old airfields like Keevil, Staverton, Colerene, Hullavington, Long Marston, Wroughton etc etc It brings back happy memories albeit 25 years + after this was filmed. Les Judkins was a hero of mine racing a 125cc MBA solo motorcycle at places like Mallory Park against kids 30 years younger than him in the 1980's/90's. I saw him "parading" his old MBA at a classic meeting a few years ago still wearing the same leathers with his son competing in other races. I don't think the BBC would ever get one of it's staff to do something like this these days, They would be wearing hi viz and safety glasses just to spectate.
Those were the days, unmuffled bikes and the smell of Castrol R. Now thanks to the fun police, race bikes in UK have got to have silencers on the exhausts. I think the IoM TT is the only place where you can hear race bikes as they were intended.
I love that this was Les Judkins but I've only just discovered this now! (Jan 2024). I was alone at a race meeting at Mallory Park in 1990 as a 19 year-old. When Les saw I was alone, sleeping in a tent with the bike on a trailer behind the car, he came up to me out of the blue and offered me a cup of tea! He's a legend, wonderful bloke.
Noaksy was up for anything , not even a full face lid. How many of us would do this instead watching it in our safe comfy homes ?? Real action man without any ego. Brilliant .
John did rather well there, he seemed to be a bit of a natural at it although the BBC could have at least sprung for a pair of boots that covered his ankles in case he was thrown off
First Nelson's Column, then the Cresta Run, now this: the bloke's one of my favourite people on the telly, ever. As anyone who rides chair outfits will tell you, being the "passenger" is hard work and chuffing dangerous.
Noakes was fantastic. He would be climbing up a chimney stack or free fall parachuting INTO THE SEA. Then back to the studio and Peter Pervie would be baking a cake...
I sometimes attended race meetings. A now retired sidecar driver said this about preparing a new passenger. Unzip head remove brain. Replace with pork chop. Re-zip head.
P4 rovers pulling trailers to get to the meet. This isn’t a classic meet it’s just all our lads could afford! Buy a ridge Ulster for ten quid , get it going again and race the bugger. Amazing
And then he goes and climbs Nelsons Column... then up the mast of some football stadium spotlights to change a bulb...and on and on he went... FEARLESS... What a guy... Get down Shep...
What a man John was, would never happen today, and what is that about having to correct fitting helmet, oh yes, use a woolly hat to pad it out, going to try that tip with my Aria helmet, Thanks John for the great tip 👍
wow they sure made tv differently back then. its so much more exciting then the glossy dumbed down versions they do these days. what a pity for the young watching tv now.
John Noakes. Absolute hero before Health and Safety was invented! Certainly a role model for me !
You seen him climb Nelson’s Column?- yikes😮😮
health and safety ! did you not notice the helmets , race marshalls its not health and safety its insurance driven measures to mitigate loss through claims its still the same in the factory i work in all the " improvements " came from insurance inspections i have been a race marshall at thruxton and i work in sheet metal
@@peterbrown7130 ...not to mention the Cresta bobsleigh run where sledge crashed
Blue Peter & Fred Dibnah was a great way to grow up in the 70's .......my son in law cant even change a tyre or wire a plug
@@blackdoublezero I've only just come across Fred Dibnah (and also these John Noakes clips), cannot get enough of them.
I remember reading that John was never insured for all the dangerous stunts he did, what a legend.
John Noakes was a total legend, awesome stuff 👍
Absolutely!I was a big fan of Blue Peter back in the sixties/early seventies and John was my favourite presenter.He was game for anything and seemed fearless to me.I always remember him scaling Nelson's Column with just a rope tied around his waist.You didn't hear many presenters with regional accents on the telly back then either.
Lovely bloke, R.I.P John, hope your back together with your dog Shepp 👍.
What a legend and brave bloke John Noakes was!
Indeed he was.
Fairplay to John Noakes he was game for anything. Very brave!
John Noakes. Hero and legend.
RIP John and Shep.
💐🌷⚘️🌹
Noaksy was just brilliant..
These where the days before health and safety ruined fun for everyone..
Just love John's shirt, white plimsolls and wooly hat under his lid. 🤣🤣🤣.
Get down Shep.. 🏁🏁🏁
Get over yourself, health and safety regulations exist to protect the average worker from exploitation and danger of ruthless bosses. Health and safety has saved millions from death and maiming and a miserable existence of poverty and pain. If you want to race that's still going on all over the world, check out Goodwood or the TT.
You can still do nuts stuff I've been a caver, climber, winter climbing in the mountains, MTBer, recumbent rider .,...... all H&E does is give an excuse to those who'd never do it anyway.
John noakes is blue Peter’s action man 👍👏👏
Brings a tear to my eye watching this, such special times, pre nanny state and John Noakes, what a hero for young kids like me.
What are you on about ? sidecar racing still goes on.
and just think, John & these lads fathers fought the war and bombed the dams in cotton overalls and leather helmets..... imagine what they thought of wearing a fibre glass helmets and having to sign a membership waver ;)
Utter classic Blue Peter. John Noakes Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton (then later Leslie Judd). John was game for absolutely everything. He truly loved Shep as well. I don't think we'll see the like of this again.
I actually got emotional watching this!
He was champion viewer material... natural, no complaints hero...
What ever was thrown at him. He caught it and put it in his pocket
Love John Noaks,He was always up to any challenge, Never pretentious or big head, Just got on with it, Always laughing and joking a great man missed RIP john, 😄🇬🇧👍
To the person/people in charge of BBC Archive, can you invite me round so I can look at all the archival footage? As no offence, but watching this clip makes me insanely jealous of the amount of content that's still left to be uncovered and makes me want to unlock my inner Adam Curtis. Thanks for putting this stuff out there, and once again, I am happy to come by at any point.
Absolute hero, best children's presenter by a country mile.A man in what was then predominantly a man's world dare I say.
Most of today's pc presenters wouldn't be capable of holding his Jacket 😁.
His free fall parachute jump with the red devils was my favourite, and at the time claimed a new civilian record, what a man👍.
John Noaks was an absolute legend, looking back at it now he always seemed to get the dangerous presenting jobs which I must admit used to love watching when I was a child..Who could forget his beloved dog and companion Shep..Get down Shep..😅
Happy days and memories..❤
I used to race with the North Gloucester Club in the 1990's at old airfields like Keevil, Staverton, Colerene, Hullavington, Long Marston, Wroughton etc etc It brings back happy memories albeit 25 years + after this was filmed. Les Judkins was a hero of mine racing a 125cc MBA solo motorcycle at places like Mallory Park against kids 30 years younger than him in the 1980's/90's. I saw him "parading" his old MBA at a classic meeting a few years ago still wearing the same leathers with his son competing in other races. I don't think the BBC would ever get one of it's staff to do something like this these days, They would be wearing hi viz and safety glasses just to spectate.
the BBC isn't interested today unless they can make a politically loaded left wing statement... in my opinion, of course...
Absolute brass ones….
He certainly had no fear 😧.. what great days
John Noakes was like the superman of kids TV he laughed in the face of fear.
They are a different crew the sidecar boys , John fitted right in !!
A hero and a legend. Proper bloke.
I never missed Blue Peter, good old John Noakes - proper bloke
Those were the days, unmuffled bikes and the smell of Castrol R. Now thanks to the fun police, race bikes in UK have got to have silencers on the exhausts. I think the IoM TT is the only place where you can hear race bikes as they were intended.
Yes indeed the neighbours in those houses would be up in arms due to the noise nowadays
John Noakes and Shep, legends.
Was suprised he didn't bring Shep along for the ride, he would have loved the wind in his face😊
I love that this was Les Judkins but I've only just discovered this now! (Jan 2024). I was alone at a race meeting at Mallory Park in 1990 as a 19 year-old. When Les saw I was alone, sleeping in a tent with the bike on a trailer behind the car, he came up to me out of the blue and offered me a cup of tea! He's a legend, wonderful bloke.
Noaksy was up for anything , not even a full face lid. How many of us would do this instead watching it in our safe comfy homes ??
Real action man without any ego. Brilliant .
When TV presenters were more than just presenters
Can you imagine Philip Schofield doing this? Bit dangerous.
You’d have more chance of holly doing it that Phil !
And certainly not politicians.
Noakesy you were a legend
Brilliant. Ive always wanted to be the wing-man on a sports sidecar. Really enjoyed this. Childrens TV in its PRIME
Get down,Shep!
Les Judkins was still whizzing about on motorcycles [A 350cc Ducati I think] with the CRMC until recently as far as I know. Really nice bloke.
Ye lovely chap raced against him many times in 80s
Don’t think he races anymore. I know his family. Lovely bunch. Remember les balancing the carbs on my rd400
I remember seeing this first time around, thinking how sleek and modern the bikes seem and now they look vintage.
"By now we were touching 70mph"..... 😄 Good stuff from a good time. John Noakes was the original peoples hero 👍
Get down Shep ! The best pairing on TV ever.
"The helmet seems a bit big." "Don't worry John, you can put a bobble hat under that... fits nicely now!" What days!
I miss “Blue Peter”.
I miss those days.
Noaksey a total loon fondly remembered.
Real tv for kids. John was great.
I used to watch "Go with Noakes" when a child in the 1970s and remember him driving a Morris Minor with his dog Shep. He was a top bloke !
He was superb
John did rather well there, he seemed to be a bit of a natural at it although the BBC could have at least sprung for a pair of boots that covered his ankles in case he was thrown off
Ballsy John noakes he would have a go at anything and did 👍👍
First Nelson's Column, then the Cresta Run, now this: the bloke's one of my favourite people on the telly, ever. As anyone who rides chair outfits will tell you, being the "passenger" is hard work and chuffing dangerous.
Noakes was fantastic. He would be climbing up a chimney stack or free fall parachuting INTO THE SEA. Then back to the studio and Peter Pervie would be baking a cake...
The bikes here are literally this 🏍 emoji.
When broadcasted television was actually entertainment
I sometimes attended race meetings. A now retired sidecar driver said this about preparing a new passenger. Unzip head remove brain. Replace with pork chop. Re-zip head.
Mr noakes the legend.
Brilliant thank you 😃
P4 rovers pulling trailers to get to the meet. This isn’t a classic meet it’s just all our lads could afford! Buy a ridge Ulster for ten quid , get it going again and race the bugger. Amazing
The woolly hat under the helmet full health an safety
And give him a blueeeee Peter baaaadge!
good ol noaksey.....blue peters resident daredevil.class man.
I so wish Go with Noakes was available on DVD....Maybe one day!
I grew up with John. Thank you!
Noakesy…what a star! Not much in the way of h&s…woolly hat on under an open face lid 😂. He was such a gutsy man and never turned down a challenge.
John Noakes LEGEND
Love the `Tea cosy` under the `Skid lid`!!! Halcyon days...
I never knew this existed. John was every school boy's big brother, doing things we would never dare to.
Brilliant, absolutely fearless
In trainers and a denim jacket...
Eee .. I remember this first time round .. see the combos at Cadwell these days and their speeds .. Ai carramba!
I'm the wrong age for this one. Duncan Dares was my thing in the eighties.
Finding it hard to believe that is Staverton airfield. First flew in 1978. Don't remember it looking like that. Very different now.
John Noakes was blue peters version of chuck Norris!
Jesus Les you look old enough already here. Would have been fun to see you race.
And then he goes and climbs Nelsons Column... then up the mast of some football stadium spotlights to change a bulb...and on and on he went... FEARLESS... What a guy...
Get down Shep...
Happy days.😁😁
Get down Shep!
#2 ......would have been the most appropriate bike for me to side car 😅
two great guys there. John - the real Bear Grylls
What a man John was, would never happen today, and what is that about having to correct fitting helmet, oh yes, use a woolly hat to pad it out, going to try that tip with my Aria helmet, Thanks John for the great tip 👍
For foreigners:The sun didn’t come out in the UK until 1996
This bloke would have a go at anything.
Noakes didn't need any race gear or crash helmet, he'd have just used his enormous balls to cushion any crash
Sidehackers!
Health and safety
How old is Joe Wilkinson?
I didn't know he was a sidecar racer as well as a comedian. 🙃
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Noakes was a nutter, brave as buggery
Noakes had balls of titanium alloy.
When the BBC was worth paying for
Brilliant John. But it’s sheps turn now 😂
Two fun facts:
1) Not one of these men had a skincare regime!
2) Whilst on holiday, nobody here took 200 photographs of himself with a telephone!
0:31 250cc-2000
I ride a 50cc 🏍 with trepidation 😬 😂
bless 'im
the olden daye eh ! grand by eck
If it wasn't for the weight of Naokie's balls slowing them down, they would have finished higher up.
2000cc motorbikes 😱
Gary Lineker, take note please.
and Shep!!
Didn't he do well..(awesome)
Your thinking generation game!
Yeah just a bit.🤣
Very disappointed there was no mention of sticky back plastic!
A true hero to kids an no namby pamby health and safety crap
wow they sure made tv differently back then. its so much more exciting then the glossy dumbed down versions they do these days. what a pity for the young watching tv now.
Total legend
How much is in that car park by todays standards
Talking to kids like they were adults. Now presenters talk like kids to adults who act like kids.
What did his helmet say - 'free-me'?
Stuff that haha
To think he didn't die during filming any of these outings.
He was crackers! I loved him ❤