2:10 you hear the cracklin' of those bad-ass 500's? Sounds better than popping corn at a rated R movie!!!
I was out of the scene when they switched to 4 strokes, still don't understand the meaning behind it and why the riders didn't fight to keep the 2 strokes rollin'! But thats coo! Makes all our 2 strokes worth more money! Buy em' while ya can boys, there gonna be like muscle cars here shortly!!!
3 of the bikes were works bikes, thorpe, gebores, and andre malherbe had works hondas and the pipes were reverse of production hondas. U.S. riders David Bailey, John O Mara, Lechien and Bob Hannah raced Hondas in the states with reverse pipes on their bikes as well. The AMA production rule in 86 as well as Johnson, Bailey and Omara kickin GP riders butts ( especially Thorpe) in des Nations in Italy on production based bikes got rid of works bikes except in Japan
There was more entertainment in this 8 minute video than the last 5 years of motocross the 500's and the track are absolutley brilliant these are the golden years of mx
there are no more MX GP tracks like this ! sadely, modern tracks are formated influenced by supercross 90's tracks :(
maladsyko 8 months ago
@maladsyko thank god there arent tracks like this, so boring to look at. looks like 10m wide enduro trail.
calltheranger 7 months ago
Good
InfertileDuck 8 months ago
wow i get high blood pressure whatchn all the 500 racers !now thats men i luv my 5...
kxmade 8 months ago
The old 'Girling' leap! This track layout was far better! Jobe couldn't do the double as I think it was filled in this year…
chipster190568 1 year ago
Does anyone know if Jobes leaping the bomb hole here at hawkstone is on youtube?
UKHOTSHOTTA 1 year ago
2:10 you hear the cracklin' of those bad-ass 500's? Sounds better than popping corn at a rated R movie!!!
I was out of the scene when they switched to 4 strokes, still don't understand the meaning behind it and why the riders didn't fight to keep the 2 strokes rollin'! But thats coo! Makes all our 2 strokes worth more money! Buy em' while ya can boys, there gonna be like muscle cars here shortly!!!
TheIdaho420 2 years ago
Superbe, go go Belgique
steph968 2 years ago
why do sum of the hondas have backwards pipes.
kohler661 2 years ago
@kohler661
3 of the bikes were works bikes, thorpe, gebores, and andre malherbe had works hondas and the pipes were reverse of production hondas. U.S. riders David Bailey, John O Mara, Lechien and Bob Hannah raced Hondas in the states with reverse pipes on their bikes as well. The AMA production rule in 86 as well as Johnson, Bailey and Omara kickin GP riders butts ( especially Thorpe) in des Nations in Italy on production based bikes got rid of works bikes except in Japan
dudebeer36 1 year ago
Ahh 500cc two strokes,what a sound mmmm
ripcurl1966 2 years ago
There was more entertainment in this 8 minute video than the last 5 years of motocross the 500's and the track are absolutley brilliant these are the golden years of mx
Hatmanslacker08 2 years ago 2
these bikes truley were
THE BEAST
bennardi 2 years ago
cool
zomhby 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this.
Atheistprimate 3 years ago
Great memory of riding this track back in 1977 in the school boy motorcross chalenge against Dutch anybody else remember ??
kaizenme 3 years ago
what a track. You dont get that many fans turning up like that anymore
RocMonsterEnergy 3 years ago
Was this on BBC TV.
Welshmonster87 3 years ago
No,It was on ITV
sjc14031974 3 years ago
i have a pic of THAT bike! at the motocross show up near coventry
richerthangod 3 years ago
Race 2 would be great. Shame we dont get this sort of coverage anymore!
smi2ler 3 years ago
check my profile for race 2
kingken35 3 years ago
Wicked! This brings back some memories! Isnt this 86 though?
smi2ler 3 years ago 2
I think your right farleigh was 85 when thorpe did his last to first - race 2 to follow
kingken35 3 years ago