Trans Atlantic motorcycle race Mallory Park
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- Trans Atlantic motorcycle race Mallory Park, part a race series between the UK and Americans. Some old faces, Randy Mamola, Barry Sheene, Dale Singleton, Mick Grant, Steve Parrish.........
This sure does bring back memories, riding to Mallory and Oulton Park (where we slept in a ditch, drunk!). I still have a photo of Sheene as he stopped for me to take the photo, at Cadwell Park. Great bloke and great days. Thank F I was there to see all this, not like todays living where people don't even know how to laugh.
“Tight racing specs” And he’s beating the hell out of that exhaust with a hammer😂
Great series TRANS AM loved it ,still got the programs up to 71 (good old days)
Me, on the right at 1:11 chewing gum aged 19. Later that year I had a bad accident, a "sorry, didn't see you" when a woman pulled out on me and I wasn't even speeding! I spent 5 months in hospital and I still ride today at 60! Thank God for the NHS!
Glad to read your story
I saw you there, I was next to Bridge and you stood out like a sore thumb, I spent a lot of time wandering around the pits (50p extra for a pits pass) watching the mechanics work on Sheens bikes
Dale Singleton was my uncle. RIP Uncle. You are missed.
I love his mannerisms!!!!
Thanks for this video, I was there and this was a great look back, Barry sheene was My hero and yes what a young Randy Mammola.
I saw all the early trans-atlantic races, some great races and riders, including the late-great Cal Rayborn on his H-D. I was in San Diego last year and visited Cal's grave, so many years have passed, but the memories still remain,
The transatlantic races I remember best were when Cal Rayborn came over on his H-D and it sounded like a asmatic tractor as he broke the lap records, what a rider.
great memories of this race, Sheen beating Roberts on the 500cc and Roberts being sheen on the 750cc, Agostini and the sound of the 750cc MV was incredible, I stood five feet away from it in the pits with the mechanic pinning it my chest was moving with the exhaust, the whole day was special, both teams really up for it, it was the peak of superbike racing and the crowds were into the 100s of thousands, today's events are nothing in comparison, not knocking today's riders in any way but then they were national heroes and people went to see them who had never been on a motorbike,
Those were the days, look at the size of the crowds
remembering the donut stalls and all those little badges for our leather jackets. Highlight was being near the pits to see Barry.
I was on the US team in '82. Looking at Devil's Elbow from trackside (this was before the chicane was added just after Shaws), I can't believe the stuff we used to race on! Highside at Devil's Elbow and you'd end up in someone's caravan!
- Homchick
Lol at the commentary at 24 secs as he says "No one could ride these machines to work...the engines are built to tight racing specifications " just as some proper old school, oily finger nailed machanic is bashing fu@k out of an expansion chamber with a big hammer...!!!
The Japanese had taken the lead in machine development and America seemed to grow an whole new group of truly talented young riders Sheene Haslum and the rest of the British squad were left wondering what was going to happen unfortunately the Americas always seemed to have superior machinery and a better choice of tyres but still the Brits rode hard and came through in the end but these times were the best in motorcycling history when four strokes were never mentioned and two strokes ruled the racetrack and the roads the smell of Castrol R40 just lingered in your nostrils, oh I wish those times could come back 💯🔥🏁💯
Dale Singleton is my uncle. RIP Uncle. Wish I could have met you.
If I'm not misatken he won Daytona that year, I was there, a wee bairn...He was awesome...sorry for your loss.From Canada
Thanks a lot, I was at this race as a teenager. Got some posters, Mallory always put the posters up late or on the day, the glue was still wet so they were easy to pilfer. And why not!
IS that " VUKMANOVICH"...mechanic of Spencer , later of Cardus And Caadalora in early 90's...?
I think so
nice video! amazing motorcycles...
Randy Mamola and Dale Singleton!!!!
@advancedbiker Yeah. I wish that I could have seen him. I was born in 1994. But My father, Spencer (Dale's brother) and I are going to start an attempt to get the old TZ 750 running. :)
@mattaitch you won't see a crowd like that these day's since they ruined mallory with too many chicanes!! great to see real racers going at it, brings back great transatlantic memories. great post.
Too many people did not get up when they went down at the Devil's Elbow. The Bus Stop made a difference. One of my daughters took here sons there for their first race meeting. It coincided with the first use of the chicane at the end of Gerrards. Said it created carnage. The left before the end of the meeting and have not returned.
great video,thank_u
great clip, thanks for sharing.
I remember standing next to sheeny in his bike tent in the early 1980's at mallory,i only live round the corner from the circuit.
DALE SINGLETON R.I.P.
i went to most of the transatlantic meets mostly at donnington and dale was allways a top yank i met him in the pits a couple of times as a kid and he was allways full of life good allround bloke
Same commetator as Mary Mungo and Midge ?
And those were the days I agree...smell that Catrol R !
What year is this please ?!
78?
1979
April 6th1980
@@clicktockclicktock youre very wrong, it is 1979
@@clicktockclicktock mate, Bazza had left Suzuki at the end of 79, he was riding an uncompetitive privateer Yamaha sponsored by Akai and did dismally in 1980
WES COOLEY TOO!!!
Who won? Sheene or Pat hennen?
Mallory before the Bus Stop. As bikes became faster more people fell at the Devil's Elbow. Often becoming quite badly injured. Meaning the medical centre had to send them to hospital. Occasional both ambulances were off site. Racing had to be suspended until at least one returned. Planning constrains mean that racing had to stop by I think 18.00hrs. On a bad day we could loose two or three races off the card. I remember people taking the rise out of the Bus Stop but riders who went down at the Devil's Elbow started to get up again.
great times i was there
Some nice tank tops about :)
I should have said , race of the year & tran am programs up to 76,
Anybody got any film of the late,great Cal Rayborn on his Harley-Davidson in the Transatlantic races ????, it sounded like a high-speed ashmatic tractor.
eee by gum, t' Devil's Elbow were one 'eck of a corner. Reckon only those that do NW200 and IOM would have the nerve to take it at racing speeds these days, if it went back to the 70's set up. Saw Parrish come off there in practice at an MCN Superbike meeting. He only went to hospital after the meeting for a check up and discovered that he had broken his pelvis! (so I was told).
@Xotravoc He was my moms cousin and she used to talk about him all the time, she even had his marlboro poster on the wall, wish I could have met him too, he died way too early.
He was a Daytona 200 winner. I forget what year though. Also, wasn't he a pig farmer when not racing?
Is that Dave Potter at 1:02?
Yes it is
Oh aint the voice over so bleeding posh and stating the bleeding obvious,def. Harry Enfield ,saw Sheeney last time racing in England ,at Goodwood,on a Manx Norton.Got lovely picture of him and wife in paddock,puffing on a Malborough! ,had followed him for ages.
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Ya....LOL. i thought that was funny too.