Kawasaki AMA Superbike Laguna Seca 1979 Race

[bikezonly]

Back in the days when men raced bikes, not kids.

[XRACER113]

sounds like will farrell when he shot himself in the neck with that tranquilizer gun

[steveo451]

there a way to speed up the film and repost?

[JTN526]

Great video, I thought the ludes were kicking in when I heard the commentary

[jeffmoto72]

@JTN526 You got ludes? Hahaha...

[jahmic726]

Is the guy in the sunglasses in witness protection?

Whats up with the voice modulator?

[fragglevooper]

SWEET!

[scottymacIII]

"1000 horse power being held in check by a single man & a green flag" a 1969 chevelle SS454 has 600HP rebuilt!!. I beleive he meant 1000cc. A 79 kaw with 1000HP? superbike inDEED

[TommyKress88]

@scottymacIII He meant the whole grid. Genius...

[box1u]

wow technology has sure come along way , in both bikes and film/video capabilities

[Ride1098]

That music sounded like they stole it from a 1970's porn flick.

[ClassicSportsNetwork]

@Ride1098 olol

[TheSpi700]

Great Video good to see them hanging off makes me remember my Z1R at max revs felt like the motor was swinging in the frame wish i never sold it , is that Deep Throat  from Water Gate commentating

[aircooledwizard]

Proper racing on proper bikes. No traction control, no launch control, just the throttle and brakes to keep you lapping quickly. Nice vid, cheers.

[lgarvey]

Baz White, before he made a name for himself as a deep voiced singer.

[manxcafe]

Thank You for the video, great memories. I'm lucky to live across Highway 68 opposite Laguna Seca (it will never be that other "corporate-name-here" raceway to me) on Los Laureles Grade since 1964. Saw many of these races right up to the recent MotoGP event, love it.

[bobedwardsjr]

Freddie Spencer rode a Kawasaki? Wow! Cool video thanks for the post!

[TigerIPanzer]

AMA = American Motorcyclist Association..fuck you 'helpful' lot - I found out for myself!

[TigerIPanzer]

what's 'AMA'?

[addohm]

He said 1000 horsepower... 

[zthang]

@addohm I thought he said 4,000 lol

[paltalkdevil]

great video

[neybordayfid]

Thanks so much for this video. I'm only in my late 20's but I love these old races and old bikes. I'm 90% done with my Wes Cooley conversion on a 1980 GS850. It definitely looks the part but of course has a little less power. I'd love to see any more races from the late 70's to early 80's.

[xuancris]

@neybordayfid GS850? Isn't that shaft-drive? I had a proper GS1000E in the early 80's, and a GS1000S Wes Cooley replica later - the Wes Cooley Replica was quite heavy - it looked nice, but was no road-race bike like the 'feather-light' 500lb GS1000E...

[neybordayfid]

@xuancris Yep, the 850 was a bored out 750 engine with a shaft-drive. It's a great bike and I've just bought my 4th. Yes, it's 600 pounds with a full tank of gas. I don't mind so much being 6'4" and 225 but I can't imagine a small person doing to well with it. Yes, shaving 100 pounds of the bike would definitely make it "feather-lite" by 1980 standards. I'd love to get a GS1000 or 1100 and upgrade the suspension and go with the red and white theme of his actual race bike. Will build for food..

[bws12r]

What is this music? Is it Moroder's Midnight Express or some other song from his?

[DZB00167]

The road surface is unevenness, a large quantity of sand.

The American course is scary.

Suzuka is No1 course!???

[jjbrown675]

Shit,this is the year I started riding...feeling kinda old now!!

[mattblack77nz]

Hey, a Darth Vader did the commentary....respec!

[landinitestacalda83]

ahahahahahha!!!! pure genius!!!!

[mattblack77nz]

Broom broom! :p

[chadski]

dope disco soundtrack

[1roadghost]

Real bikes -real racers!!

[54spiritedwill54]

Great video.

[XH1927]

It's amazing that as little as 5 years after this the GPz, FZ, GSX, and VF started birthing the modern superbike.

[mnbme]

What's with the audio? Everyone sounds like they're on quaaludes...

[GSDubz]

It's the 70's maaaan

[RTiger18]

Kawasaki rules the past,present and it owns the future.

Kawasaki for life.

[Quadrider350z]

More like Yamaha, past, present, and future, ride blue not green

[RTiger18]

Yamaha is not a bad bike but,the color blue is lame ass hell.Yamaha is second to a ninja.Its better than gixxer and honda though.

[mayorcool]

That Freddie Spencer looks like he has some potential, I wonder how he made out after this victory.

[mfelcher11111]

I think he won a couple more races...he tried to make a career out of racing...I heard.

[redlinedeath]

spencer schmencer. just another guy thinking he could go all the way. probably never made it far...

[chaos0691]

Your kidding right?

[lukesimmons101]

Haha yeah, you caught me.

[chaos0691]

Freddy is one of only two riders to ever win two wold championships at the same time. 250 and 500 and before that several A.M.A. superbike champianships after leaving kawasaki to ride with team honda.

[tntpinay]

wait, if you mean this to my comment, i was being sarcastic, im a big Spencer fan!

[chaos0691]

OK I get now, I know what You mean. One of the greatest superbike and Grand Prix riders of alltime.

[NICAKAWIRIDER]

kawi rules baby!!!!!!!!!!! great video!!!!!!!!

[Drikyz]

oh yeaa...great video and graet bikes...thank you for sharing!

[carlgar2007]

OH WOW fantastic stuff

[RickyJ46]

Awesome memories!

[supervmax]

Great video. Please post as many as you have on this period and esp the AMA superbikes.

[VintageBrand]

Brings back memories of my Kawasaki 500 triple... Nice to see another video of the original track with 9 turns.

[Hotshoe]

thank you,,, this is why I do what I do for a living.

[steigerpower]

Great Clips indeed.