at 4:09 "best Brit Bike" was my dad. Now, sadly passed. The bike is in my garage, along with the 1948 Senior TT winning Norton, as ridden by Artie Bell, and my grandfather Harry Hinton, also to be restored. Thanks Bill.

Thank you 🙂. Brilliant

Looking forward to this. I love the old bikes and those old boys racing them - tough men. Id love to buy an old bike like the style featured in these vids.

Absolutely enthralling. Memories from my teenage years. Thanks for posting.

Bob Mac started at 78 as riders drew lots to decide their starting orders and this meant he had to pass a lot of slower riders. With race speeds rising the sensible decision was made to have the fastest riders start at the front of the field.

i was actually there Probably the greatest TT of all time I was at the Creg for the 500cc

4:47 that looks remarkably like Barry Sheene!

Proper motorbike racing!

Thanks Bill, made my day. Just got my CB72 in 67.

Love it, I was there as a 14 year old.

Twoje filmy są niesamowite!!!

Lovely Gilly four sound.

I was standing on Clearways when Florian died sad day

Nice cool bikes

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Bultaco hacía un cambio excepcional de marchas porque encajaba perfectamente sin tocar el embrague igual subiendo velocidad que bajando velocidad excepcional.

Eran verdaderos suicidas normalmente mataban al paquete.

1967 was my first TT and it was a wonderful experience. One of the highlighs for me it was leaning over a low wall in some field on the approach to hillberry and watching the leader on the road on the first lap, Mike Hailwood, come past at an incredible speed just a couple of feet from our heads. It was a great event. Thanks, Bill, for so many memories. You are a true enthusiast.

This Video should be played on loop at the Manx Museums .

Brilliant Video....Thank You for your fine production.

Honda et moi vous ons écrasé, HONDA CB. R 65,66,67,HISTOIRE FALSIFIÉ 😔😔👁️

fantastic--thank you from australia!!!

Thank you Bill for bringing the race to life, excellent

Fascinating and excellent thank you Bill from Alf Justin

...and I love those wheel-filling four-leading-shoe front brakes on the Yamaha 250s...there's nothing in the braking world like the initial bite of a 4LS drum brake that's the size of a pie plate with car-width (2") linings.

Greetings. I will check our pics to see if it is the same bike.

The 1968 Production TT win by a Dunstall Norton was the first win by a disc-braked motorcycle at the IOM and I believe the first at ANY major motorcycle race. Wonder if it was the same bike Smart ran to 2nd in '67?

Awsome work. Thank you very much for uploading !

Another brilliant film..

A wondreful journey ❤

Proper bikes. Proper sounds. Proper riders. I was two-years old. TFP

Parkfield ..no idea where that is?

Lovely memories, thanks

Bill Ivy had a bad habit of undoing the strap on his helmet when cruising....

My first TT absolutely brilliant....

Only one word - Great.Many thanks.

Tarquino Provini, if you ever made plastic models (Airfix, Revell and that) you'd know Protar? Geddit? What he did after racing. Also I believe he kept a wolf in his garden.

Wonderful film with amazing full rider and machine details, great that it is now on digital record.

My Father knew Duke during WW2 and we had to listen to the TT Races every year on the radio!! I was born 1952 and I can remember this happening into the 1960s. I have apparently loads of motorbike info in my head that I never knew about!! My Father had bikes and there are some very attractive photos of him when he was single. When they had me he had to go down to a BSA with sidecar. However, I grew up with a Father who regularly drove at 100mph so I am used to speed and big engines. Great that people, and you, with the memories and info go to the effort of recording them for others. My Father who died in 1983 had a weird war and was based at The Admiralty SW1 and was involved in motorbike, car and small boat Research and Development and some other stuff that one isn’t allowed to talk about!

I bet your ears were ringing after that!

Honda 6 a dream of a machine. I was asked to help warm one up in the paddock at a Classic Bike meeting in the late 80’s. The fact I had me leathers on and just help start my brothers Duke might have helped up. What a 5 minutes that was, cheers guys.

I used to goto the Saltbox between 1966 and 1969. We used spread out time between the Saltbox, the Nightingale ( just up the road) and finally rode to Johnson’s Cafe near Brands Hatch. Great times we had.

very enjoyable bought back many memories.i was only about 18 years old but the bike bug was already with me. i am now 73 ,my wife 71 and we still are lucky enough to ride.

Current Suzuki board should be hanging their heads in shame, given what they've done to the great company! I was in a Suzuki dealer yesterday, must be a tough gig these days given the small amount of range available...time for a clear out at the top, and do what Yamaha did a decade ago, get back to the drawing board with a new direction for the company before it's too late...pulling out of MotoGP just might be their final nail in their coffin?

For me, the 1967 TT races were in the golden era of motorcycle racing. The various marques were distinctly different in looks and sound. It was a more simple and less extravagant time that an ordinary rider who used a bike to get to work everyday could more easily feel a connection. Many enthusiasts experienced the excitement of the TT races by listening to the annually produced phonograph records. The sounds we heard then and the familiar names of the days come back to us in this brilliant little documentary.

Thanks for that. When I realised that this was 'still' photos I lost a bit of interest but it turned out to be very interesting. I first got hooked on the TT in 1957 when my sisters boyfriend brought to our house the TT issues of the "Green Un" and the "Blue Un". Living in Hong Kong for 27 years then the Philippines for 20 years I finally got to the Manx GP about 5 years ago. In Hong Kong I was a race official several times at the Macau GP. Being on the committee of the HK Motorsports Club I once attended a cocktail party at which both Mike Hailwood and Stirling Moss were present. About 8 years ago I met Phil Read in Hong Kong and had a few beers with him.

Great video, great sounds and pictures. Brought back so many lovely memories

I used to go to Reg Orpins in the early seventies. I lived in Chiswick from ‘72 to ‘78 and worked at E.S. Motors. There were so many motorcycle dealers in London back then, almost all of them have gone in 2022.

Open face helmets, a single cylinder Maico and BSA. End of an era.

Do you have any information on Charles Henry Francis (Harry Francis) ?