Riding Barry Sheene's RG500 at Cadwell Park!

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  • @eant1234
    @eant1234 Před 10 měsíci +97

    How does Steve Parrish not age? He looks the same as when I saw him at Northwich Thundersprint about 15 years ago. Fair play to him 👍

  • @hotblackdesiato3451
    @hotblackdesiato3451 Před 10 měsíci +64

    Growing up in the 70's Barry Sheene was my absolute hero. Watching him pass Kenny Roberts then flick the vee's at him during the '79 Silverstone GP was epic.
    In other news, full marks to Fagan for riding a 500cc hand grenade without a working rev counter.

    • @FortyFourTeeth
      @FortyFourTeeth  Před 10 měsíci +14

      It was tricky 😂

    • @wobblysauce
      @wobblysauce Před 10 měsíci +1

      It was well worth it

    • @HughMessenger
      @HughMessenger Před 10 měsíci +2

      I was there, at Stowe! Age 16, rode my RD250 from Leighton Buzzard. First solo trip to a race.

    • @hotblackdesiato3451
      @hotblackdesiato3451 Před 10 měsíci

      Jeez, can you imagine giving a 16 year old a 250 today?! I was only 10 at the time so could only dream. @@HughMessenger

    • @keithattwood59
      @keithattwood59 Před 6 měsíci +2

      I was there too. I came on my GT250 X7😊

  • @DB71170
    @DB71170 Před 10 měsíci +8

    You jammy, lucky,lucky,lucky bar steward !!!
    Great to see those magnificent machines being used....who doesn't ❤ 2 strokes!!

  • @rachelsirett8809
    @rachelsirett8809 Před 10 měsíci +15

    Omg my childhood Barry Sheene was and is a total legend ❤️

    • @alexnutcasio936
      @alexnutcasio936 Před 10 měsíci

      His wife thought the same thing!!

    • @rachelsirett8809
      @rachelsirett8809 Před 10 měsíci

      @@alexnutcasio936 no need for that! He never said he was a saint!

    • @jolivetphilippe7951
      @jolivetphilippe7951 Před 10 měsíci

      Yes, Barry was a legend for the Continental Circus. A good race man 👍. Phil 🏍️ 🇨🇵 gsxr 1000 r. 2018 Originslimited n 14 France 🇫🇷.

  • @NooBiker
    @NooBiker Před 10 měsíci +6

    That was so cool. Anyone would be green with envy. Thanks for taking us along.

  • @alexnutcasio936
    @alexnutcasio936 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Nothing like the sound & smell of 2 stroke in the morning!!! Oh, the torque too.

  • @KyleMicena
    @KyleMicena Před 10 měsíci +27

    This is so sick! Sheene is one of greatest characters of our sport.

    • @TheScortUK
      @TheScortUK Před 10 měsíci +5

      Not sure what this has to do with vomit - but Sheene was a legend 😎

  • @derekcomer4858
    @derekcomer4858 Před 10 měsíci +5

    Honestly I think the fear of binning it would wipe out all of the enjoyment. Boothy at the end was hilarious 🤣🤣

  • @nikpester
    @nikpester Před 10 měsíci +6

    Gawd, that took me back. How I lusted after an RG500 as a young biker in the '80s. When the 650 hit the powerband and the exhaust note changed, it reminded me of my stupidly tuned RD250LC, nothing 'til 8000 then pull your arms off all the way to 12000. I am a car man now, but if I were to go back to bikes it would have to be a two stroke! Brilliant stuff, great footage.

  • @TRJx86
    @TRJx86 Před 10 měsíci +25

    Thanks for bringing us along on this piece of history and glad to see Boothy in the commentary box

  • @bikehubjapan
    @bikehubjapan Před 10 měsíci +7

    Could see in the intro how hard you were trying not to grin from ear to ear! Lucky devil!!! 😂

  • @simonelaineparker4975
    @simonelaineparker4975 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Had the privilege to meet Barry on numerous occasions and spend time in his motorhome with him. Those were the good old days.

  • @schobi1302
    @schobi1302 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Love watching it. Nice to see some legendary bikes being used again.

  • @johndejure9849
    @johndejure9849 Před 10 měsíci +2

    that was not an experience , it was a divine occourance ! very fortunate and blessed to such a day!

  • @scottsmith491
    @scottsmith491 Před 10 měsíci +5

    Outstanding video 👍. Thank you for putting this together. Absolutely love the 2 strokes!! Greetings from the USA.

  • @pauldean8638
    @pauldean8638 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I had a magazine centre pin up of his bike when the back wheel went pop on Daytona , it had a caption “ at 195mph all a rider could do is pray “ , that must of been some praying Barry done to survive

  • @daleskidmore1685
    @daleskidmore1685 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Seeing Barry back at Goodwood for the Revivals was always a highlight. He was a great hero.

  • @OldManTony
    @OldManTony Před 10 měsíci +5

    My first experience of watching bikes at Cadwell Park back in the 70s, was seeing Barry racing a big RG along with Ago and many others racing at an International meeting they used to ride along with their GP commitments.

  • @Fran_SG
    @Fran_SG Před 9 měsíci +1

    Nice, exciting, cool…nice sound. Amazing!!!

  • @djharmful
    @djharmful Před 10 měsíci +2

    Legend!!! Both you and Sir Barry Sheene

  • @rob1k8
    @rob1k8 Před 10 měsíci +1

    You jammy bastard !
    I’m old enough to have seen the 500’s from the mid 70’s when we were kids and my mates grandad used to take us to Silverstone our local circuit so I saw Sheene in his prime and through to Rainy and Schwantz in the early 90’s. I’ll never forget the sound of a grid full of them at full chat.

  • @whammerjammer1562
    @whammerjammer1562 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Thank you for sacrificing yourself and creating this awesome content for those of us that love 2-stroke GP machinery!

  • @chrispawlak14
    @chrispawlak14 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Thank you fellas! As always, cracking to see anything from any of you three!
    Friend has a RG500 gamma here in Canada. Rode it when I had a 900 Ninja , in 1990. Super small, but in the power , wheelies in 3 rd. !
    The sound and smell , when you were warming it I swear I could smell it here in igloo land !
    Pawlak

  • @davexs
    @davexs Před 10 měsíci +1

    Literally, made made hairs stand up. My favourite circuit, on the all time, dream bike. What an awesome sound, what a great experience for you. I grew up in the 70's and this brought so many memories back for me, Barry and Kenny, true Icons

  • @davelawrence594
    @davelawrence594 Před 10 měsíci +2

    What an amazing opportunity for you to ride these amazing legendary Sheen bikes what an honour unbelievable!! 👌🏻👍🏻😁

  • @bigmartin
    @bigmartin Před 10 měsíci +2

    Barry Sheen ❤❤❤ I’m lost for words.. I never had an RG but when through a few LC’s and YPVS’s.. Loved this clip, thank you

  • @sjk8273
    @sjk8273 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I had the pleasure of meeting Barry in the pits at Spa in 1984. I just walked up to him whilst he was working on his bike .. we had a little chat and he signed my ticket. Different times!

  • @Vtwin_Superbikes
    @Vtwin_Superbikes Před 10 měsíci +6

    RG sounds phenomenal! Looks gorgeous too, has aged well.

  • @5ft_fifi
    @5ft_fifi Před 10 měsíci +17

    These classic bikes are insane, and that right side shift must’ve been so strange to navigate 😅 What an opportunity to ride them though. Good luck for cadwell this weekend lads 😎✌🏼

    • @funkyfin3023
      @funkyfin3023 Před 10 měsíci

      What a day, one you’ll never forget. Riding on a damp track with old slicks, your balls are as big as Sheenes.

    • @pbysome
      @pbysome Před 6 měsíci

      Lee gourlay would jump from r/h to l/h race to race at a meeting no problem.

  • @ManxAndy
    @ManxAndy Před 10 měsíci +2

    You lucky bugger…..that’s a proper once in lifetime moment ticked off…..👍😉🇮🇲👌

  • @Eksistenssi
    @Eksistenssi Před 10 měsíci

    This is the stuff that still excites me!

  • @ragerider6283
    @ragerider6283 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Wow, amazing. I imagine blowing it up is as much of a worry as crashing it, especially with no rev counter lol. Sounds amazing. Makes me miss my 94' RGV250.

  • @griggzzy1058
    @griggzzy1058 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Im so glad content like this is on CZcams. Absolutely jealous, thanks 44 teeth. Long live two strokes

  • @snakeplizzkn2113
    @snakeplizzkn2113 Před 10 měsíci +10

    Bravo on the intro shots/edit. Statham actually managed to look cool coming out of the trailer 😂👍🏻

  • @ElderWrath
    @ElderWrath Před 10 měsíci +1

    The suites, as always, are on point Lads

  • @In-the-shed
    @In-the-shed Před 10 měsíci

    Amazing- great to see 👏🏻

  • @jonpowell8014
    @jonpowell8014 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Sitting here dreaming about sniffing the fumes! Loving the routing of the rear spannies on the big bore bike...
    😁

  • @FrankyJr
    @FrankyJr Před 10 měsíci +1

    Wow, what a great vid, bikes sound as smooth as the day they were built

  • @stevecurd3944
    @stevecurd3944 Před 10 měsíci

    abs fanatstic Sheene was my boyhood hero in the 70's & 80's & ive still got the posters & news clippings of Sheene from that era i had on my bedroom wall ,great to see his bikes are kept alive

  • @MrSmegfish
    @MrSmegfish Před 10 měsíci +1

    Came from a time of great innovation.From about 74 the two strokes just went ballistic.

  • @_Makanko_
    @_Makanko_ Před 10 měsíci +1

    Top notch cinematic exit at the start there

  • @Tilpants
    @Tilpants Před 10 měsíci +1

    I was about to say it looked like cracking weather....bummer about the showers (rain and coolant) but what an experience!

  • @CHOOM_1
    @CHOOM_1 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Lots of old bikes. I love it

  • @nickprice3605
    @nickprice3605 Před 10 měsíci +1

    ❤ 44 Beards, what a channel ❤
    What a noise! That RG sounds amazin
    Good to see Sravros still knockin abaht

  • @scottieray
    @scottieray Před 10 měsíci

    So interesting to see and hear moto journalists whos articles I have read for years.

  • @soilsmanadv6673
    @soilsmanadv6673 Před 10 měsíci

    I love that two stroke sound, lack of engine braking and there is nothing like the smell of those bikes.

  • @scozza7150
    @scozza7150 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Work of art, that sounds beautiful, I can smell the Castrol R from here lol
    All that with zero revs too lol. Power bands. Just love two strokes ✊
    Great little film 👍

  • @Supercarlsunday
    @Supercarlsunday Před 10 měsíci +1

    Fantastic video, anything sheene you cant go wrong! Love the ending haha👍

  • @MossopUK
    @MossopUK Před 10 měsíci

    Brilliant content as always. Those 2 smokers sing when on the pipe!!

  • @paulthompson8613
    @paulthompson8613 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Great stuff enjoyed this as much as watching his 1976 xr14 being restored

  • @danielparker6368
    @danielparker6368 Před 10 měsíci

    Those dials are creasing me up, what an experience that must have been

  • @russcattell955i
    @russcattell955i Před 10 měsíci +1

    In my teens Barry was my hero. My dad's home town hero was Phil Read. Irony is I now wear a Phil Read replica helmet.

  • @MrKdr500
    @MrKdr500 Před 10 měsíci +5

    RIP. the great Barry Sheene, he did so much good for the sport then taken way to early.

  • @grahamsmith8122
    @grahamsmith8122 Před 9 měsíci

    Bit of a frustrating weekend with the weather. Thanks for not running into the back of me on the start finish straight! Oggie is a star!

  • @blast3613
    @blast3613 Před 10 měsíci

    To quote "Monty Python" - "You lucky, lucky Bastard", I grew up inn the 70's and 80's with a poster of Barry on one of those black,red and yellow bikes, on my wall. Ahh the good old days✌🤟🤘👍🤛👏

  • @alistairdrew6064
    @alistairdrew6064 Před 10 měsíci

    I met Barry at Keith Heuwens wedding at Binbrook Church .Lincolnshire .UK.
    A TRUE GENTLEMAN !!!!!!!!! Nothing was too much trouble for him . He spoke to everyone and signed many auotgraphs !!
    His wife Stephanie was there too . WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You lucky little bugger Barry . !!! A stunningly beautiful lady .
    He was loved worldwide and in Australia where i now live there is still a motorcycle celebratory ride for him every year before the Philip Island GP . Well done Barry . You will never be forgotten . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @dinxsy8069
    @dinxsy8069 Před 10 měsíci

    I see a clean Aprilia RS250 on the way home this evening, thought to myself here's me stuck in a bloody car while he's on 2T marvel. So glad i've kept a hold of my Mito 125 since i was a teen 20 years ago

  • @Steve-ly9py
    @Steve-ly9py Před 9 měsíci

    😂 Got to see that close up as you passed me on the XR69 into the hairpin & on to the wet bit😂😂

  • @badger4361
    @badger4361 Před 9 měsíci

    So jealous, what an opportunity, nice one. 🙂

  • @mrdcato
    @mrdcato Před 10 měsíci +1

    Pretty cool. Sounded lean to me. I've been doing alot of laps on Ride 4 lately so that was fun to watch. 🙂

  • @johndavy8801
    @johndavy8801 Před 10 měsíci

    You Lucky Luck Luck boy,that is the pinnacle of anything Sheene Suzuki If your a Barry Fan… I’m so jealous as back in the day I saw the great man racing on it. Marvellous.

  • @Weeem
    @Weeem Před 10 měsíci

    As soon as you started riding, I suddenly got a flashback to an old biker film I saw on TV once - Silver Dream Racer starring David Essex (1980)

  • @UpsideDownFork
    @UpsideDownFork Před 10 měsíci

    Living the dream!

  • @adamwillets1846
    @adamwillets1846 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Please keep boothy on board. What a perfect team with the Baron too. Keep up the good work.

  • @Dispariabooks
    @Dispariabooks Před 10 měsíci +3

    I can't imagine having an opportunity like that...
    Oh well, off to go play Ride 5 with my helmet and boots on.

  • @seanys
    @seanys Před 10 měsíci

    I’m lying comfortably on my couch and I’m still terrified watching this.

  • @philstevens9914
    @philstevens9914 Před 10 měsíci

    If I remember right, it was the engine out of one of Mamola's 1983 XR-45 bikes in a Harris frame. So, it was a works engine.

  • @bananabrooks3836
    @bananabrooks3836 Před 10 měsíci +1

    The lack of a functioning rev counter on the 500 is bizarre. But more so is Fagans referring to it as if it was. However with a working tacho for evidence, he appeared to ride the 652 rather well.

  • @MadChalet
    @MadChalet Před 10 měsíci +1

    Super cool! I hope that was fresh rubber on the bikes. 🤘

  • @secretsix6
    @secretsix6 Před 10 měsíci

    it was good watching that rev counter on the red bike

  • @ragnarironspear1791
    @ragnarironspear1791 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Awesome bikes ❤

  • @gavd6726
    @gavd6726 Před 10 měsíci +2

    It's the hard work and the success of the channel that gets you opportunities like this. What a privilege. #statham #sueperkins #boothy

  • @guttsu
    @guttsu Před 10 měsíci +1

    Good on ya mate, that must've been quite the experience. Had no damn clue his bike was right-side shift, that sounds impossible to get your head around in a scant 4 laps, especially when you're focusing on keeping it shiny side up.

  • @shegocrazy
    @shegocrazy Před 10 měsíci

    Screaming 2 stroke is fabulous.

  • @mikeybikey106
    @mikeybikey106 Před 10 měsíci +1

    With the technology we have these days, just imagine what a Ducati or KTM modern 2 stroke motogp would look and sound like and moreover how it would go !
    Well done for having the balls to ride a bike with such a highly valued heritage

  • @jolivetphilippe7951
    @jolivetphilippe7951 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Joli rassemblement, belles machines, comme à la grande époque de Barry Sheene. Superbes souvenirs avec ces 2 temps en 500 cm3. 👍 Toute une époque du Continental Circus ! 👏 Bravo ! Phil 🇨🇵 gsxr 1000 r L8 origins limited n °14 France 🇫🇷.

  • @garethmiller8378
    @garethmiller8378 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Seen those great machines at silverstone museum a couple of years ago down to watch the moto gp,brilliant to see some on board footage and fair play taking on the right sided shift, am with boothy no way I could do that either😂👍🏻

  • @flapjackbeans
    @flapjackbeans Před 10 měsíci

    i remember them well hope you appreciate what you were on there wow

  • @garethevans7214
    @garethevans7214 Před 10 měsíci

    What a lucky lad you are. Also did anyone else notice the guy in the vintage parts jacked looked like he was going to shove a Frankfurter in the exhaust 🤣

  • @jg3685
    @jg3685 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Kin Barry Sheen, Legend!

  • @chrisnightingale6417
    @chrisnightingale6417 Před 10 měsíci

    You lucky bastard 😂👍 superb!

  • @deanmaiden6202
    @deanmaiden6202 Před 10 měsíci

    Somewhere there's a photo of me age 14 sat on Barry's bike at a school event! nearly 35yrs later I was cutting Steve's lawn and got to see his bike I'm nearly 60 now still riding 😊

  • @mickeymouse4897
    @mickeymouse4897 Před 9 měsíci

    Looks like the old girl's running on 3 cylinders on start up ... These old 2 strokes are fairly tame to ride compared to the bikes of Doohan/ Schwantz's era... still great to see & here them do a lap again.

  • @shadowred1980
    @shadowred1980 Před 10 měsíci

    Great job.

  • @peterjackson2722
    @peterjackson2722 Před 10 měsíci

    That Kevin Schwantz 34 bike at 5 seconds - oh my days😍

  • @ianjames3078
    @ianjames3078 Před 10 měsíci

    My school books were covered in my hand drawn front on views of those bikes and that 7 😍

  • @xipingpooh5783
    @xipingpooh5783 Před 10 měsíci

    Magnificent bikes and video

  • @SatansSpatula
    @SatansSpatula Před 10 měsíci +2

    Amazing what you were able to do at under 3k RPM the entire time!

  • @alexandernoble8447
    @alexandernoble8447 Před 10 měsíci

    Well that's me awake from my night shift watching that video..👌

  • @Lucas-uj6bo
    @Lucas-uj6bo Před 8 měsíci

    Those fluoro licorice all sort leathers just scream 1985 👍😂

  • @bobrichardson4464
    @bobrichardson4464 Před 9 měsíci

    That bike was just like Sheene.
    A magnificent beast

  • @ianhoyle8459
    @ianhoyle8459 Před 10 měsíci

    Love Suzuki, awesome video

  • @MrSimplesimon007
    @MrSimplesimon007 Před 3 měsíci

    I spoke to Barry sheene on the fone in 1995 he was living in Australia then I believe, the owner of York suzuki personally knew him, I thought it was a wind up at first as we were in the pub but it was true 👍

  • @markpearce5793
    @markpearce5793 Před 10 měsíci +11

    I remember Barry Sheene saying that 650 would wheelie on the throttle in sixth gear. It’s an absolute beast 😂

    • @wobblysauce
      @wobblysauce Před 10 měsíci

      Front end got light…

    • @BrianJacobsen-vn6is
      @BrianJacobsen-vn6is Před 10 měsíci +1

      Love power wheely's.

    • @stewartmoore6451
      @stewartmoore6451 Před 10 měsíci

      Tom Herron, Barry's team mate, was sadly killed at the NW200 in 1979 riding a 650 transatlantic bike identical to this.

  • @GlennPowell-ls3lg
    @GlennPowell-ls3lg Před 10 měsíci +1

    For anyone wondering why the tail pipes on the exhaust look so narrow its because the general rule of thumb on a stroker is that the exhaust should be circa half the diameter than the exhaust port on the barrel.

  • @S2000Y
    @S2000Y Před 10 měsíci +2

    Would be nice to see some dyno charts of these two bikes

  • @BrianJacobsen-vn6is
    @BrianJacobsen-vn6is Před 10 měsíci

    Your offered Sheens bike around a circuit. Better be saying hell ya Brings back at lot of memories.

  • @gnarshread
    @gnarshread Před 10 měsíci

    That was oddly casual for such a momentus occasion.

  • @hubert1142
    @hubert1142 Před 10 měsíci

    Legend! Barry was ok too.

  • @James_Rides
    @James_Rides Před 10 měsíci

    That noise is just ridiculous 🤤🤤