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Your mum
9:03 Tue Dec 30
Re: Barry Sheene
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I had an RD350LC, closest I got to the 500GP bikes! Man I loved that bike!
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Willtell
2:54 Tue Dec 30
Re: Barry Sheene
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SilverSurfer 2:11
When you've ridden an RGB500 around Brands, Lydden, Mallory, Silvertsone, Thruxton and Snetterton you know your cock isn't very long if it gets pulled out by a KH500...
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Steady
2:35 Tue Dec 30
Re: Barry Sheene
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I was in Northampton general hospital with a sprained leg (aged 7) in 1982 and Bazza was the floor above at the same time with broken arms, legs and wrists suffered whilst practising for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone
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SilverSurfer
2:11 Tue Dec 30
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Willtell
sold my Kawasaki KH 500 two stroke triple some months ago.
That used to ' pull your cock out straight'.
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Willtell
10:17 Mon Dec 29
Re: Barry Sheene
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I met Barry and his dad years ago before he was famous at a Press Trial at Brands Hatch. He was crazy and wrecked a brand new Bultaco trials bike by jumping so high that the rear suspension collapsed.
Barry was a real character and the two of us stayed behind in the bar at Brands which was an old shack back in those days in the early 70's. He was 17 or 18 I think and still managed to get off with the busty bar maid that must have been 35 or so she seemed at the time....
I had an RGB500 ex-GP machine which I raced in club events for years up to 1985 then sponsored other riders on it until 4 strokes took over. It was a beast because below 8,000rpm it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. But after 8,000rpm it went wild to around 10,000rpm and so you always had to be in the right gear and ready for it.
How the top guys managed to control them required incredible levels of feel on the skinny instant slip tyres we had in those days.
Happy memories and yes I saw the programme. Maggie Sheen married Paul Smart who was also a racer and won Ducati's first big race at the 1972 Imola 200 on a big V-twin which was a new machine then and has gone on to become the Ferrari of motor cycling.
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Your mum
9:44 Mon Dec 29
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Man I miss the crazy strokers! INSANE amounts of power from those tiny 2 stroke engines! RG500's etc are truly pieces of art!
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SecondOpinion
8:59 Mon Dec 29
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The bike was fitted with stabiliser's
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hammersupnorth
12:01 Mon Dec 29
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Great programme, Vic could have gone for it a bit more though. An RG500 round Olivers Mount?
He should have wrung it's neck!
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lowermarshhammer
11:33 Sun Dec 28
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Fair play to Vic Reeves, but I suppose they were too frightened to let Guy Martin on that bike.
That machine deserved a thrashing from a rider.
That Roberts Sheene race was probably the most exciting thing I'd ever seen on tv before 1980...
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Takashi Miike
11:22 Sun Dec 28
Re: Barry Sheene
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good programme that, loved the line about Barry having a bug......"yes it's yellow and black and called Kenny Roberts" :.)
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SilverSurfer
11:20 Sun Dec 28
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same as that Mike.
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Takashi Miike
10:35 Sun Dec 28
Re: Barry Sheene
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yes, watching that surf, never realised vic reeves was a big fan
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