20 FASTEST Motorcycles From The 1960s, We Want Back!

[@allamar9083]

The well informed people who do these should get educated first. Really!

[@bradcobb3418]

agree! they need to do a post production check before posting. Frankly I doubt that they're even bikers 👎

[@kentilly6160]

The guy you are listening to is only reading from a script that some non biker wrote!

[@VinSidecar47]

Norton Atlas that’s a Commando….

[@MrChrissy1r]

@@kentilly6160 Most like l text to speak, like most posts these days.

[@stephaneckes7438]

The Vincent Rapid was a motorcicle of the 1950th! Trucky.

[@simonmarsden66]

and the video showed a black shadow

[@jamesrickerby2756]

Still got one at 79 years old, BSA Super Rocket. Looks like a Rocket Gold Star and engine at the same spec! But now it has an electric start. My kids will sell it when the big guy comes to call, road it in the spring real nice, but n9w i have old Jag mk2 as daily driver!

[@RobertKetteringham]

I think the BSA GOLD STAR IS MY FAVOURITE BIKE 🏍

[@Jason-sx6su]

Kawasaki H3 500cc with Ram-Air,I don't think so.Suzukis had Ram air.

[@unclejake101]

Ram Air intake system.....wtf 😂😂😂😂

[@PLINKER]

Hope they bring back the BSA Lightening! Love that motorcycle!

[@1bigapple2]

Norton Atlas -- but started off showing the Norton Commando.

[@kenwood5575]

And it was really designed as a sidecar puller. The Dominator was the sports bike.

[@CHRnorton]

The Commando was as fast as any and faster than most, low 12 s at 100+ MPH.

[@bob521i]

@@CHRnorton And the Featherbed frame. Nothing better,

[@anglo-swissjeff7539]

I am a very proud owner of a Triumph Bonneville T120 SR - 1965 - special order from JOMO - USA ordered on the 22nd June 1965 - the SR means " Sports Roadster "

[@Wedge-r9o]

It’s a keeper!

[@RobertKetteringham]

Yes I agree with the person who said bonnevill is his favourite bick 😂❤

[@RobertKetteringham]

I agree with you 💯 ❤

[@davidgibbon5827]

I owned a triumph tiger 100 then a Bonneville back in the 60s

[@KookieMonster-d8n]

Commando and Dominator shown for the Norton Atlas,deceptive.

[@paulblouin6955]

I actually owned a Triumph Hurricane. That is a BSA Rocket 3 frame with styling by Craig Vetter. Super fun. The 3 pipes on the right pretty easily dragged and it needed better brakes. So much fun. Wish I had a 1972 Rocket 3. Even more rare.

[@utz3710]

Smooth ride of the Harley Davidson...................?????????????? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FRICKEN MIND?😮😭😳😔😑

[@raybrensike42]

Well, they simply "Glide" right? lol

[@9014jayvictor]

LOL

[@bernarddavis1050]

1930s technology, Harleys of that era were real death traps. Brilliant marketing though.

[@grandadsfishingboat7455]

😂

[@leewarry8641]

I had a 74 xlch & it had less vibration than my triumph or my a65 bsa it vibrated even less than my 850 commando .

[@PeterLucasathome]

5 minutes was enough for me... Is this some kind of prototype bot? Needs work.

[@fatroberto3012]

Two minutes more than I managed.

[@Ian-bq7gp]

BSA lightning had great handling and were a great bike. The A10 super rocket wasagreat bike too. Norton commando was a lovely bike but the best parallel twin was royal Enfield's last interceptors. Best motor made by the Brits.

[@paulblouin6955]

I loved my Interceptor. It wasn't nearly as fast as my Commando. I did like it.

[@normkeen2597]

@@paulblouin6955 I have a 64 Interceptor and I love it but as for handling and power left a lot to be desired and the gearbox was about 20 years out of date

[@ccrider00]

65 cycle world road test R.E.I interceptor 750. Called it King Kong.13.66 1/4 et. Series 1" the good looking engine "

[@RoyaEnfieldBSAman]

I have an interceptor engine to go in a super meteor frame

[@timdoyle66]

Lightning twin headlights?😂

[@kybourbonboy]

Yeah I caught that. My first bike was a 650 Lightning. It was like losing one's virginity to a beautiful girl with the clap. I loved the bike and yet wish I had never bought it. Should have gotten the CB750. A lesson well learned .

[@alexanderpotts7308]

@@kybourbonboy I prefer the Tunderbolt, bbut just the same fun

[@geoffmcrorie90]

@@kybourbonboy I had one. Over about 60 mph it rattled the fillings out of your teeth. One of the worst bikes I ever owned. My BSA Road Rocket was a much better machine.

[@KookieMonster-d8n]

The Kawasaki mach 3 was from the 1970's.

[@arthurleino]

Those Kawasaki 500 triples were popular with sailors in Florida in 1973.

[@davidevans6051]

I think you'll find that the Norton Atlas is intact a Norton Commando.

[@CHRnorton]

The Commando replaced the Atlas , it had the isolastic frame and was the fastest bike in the 1/4. The Atlas had low compression and the heavy featherbed frame. The Commando in 1968 could turn low 12s seconds and 100+ in the 1/4 miles. It is legendary for it's speed and in modern vintage racing was as fast as any other.

[@dennisloobman8013]

They both had the same 750 parallel engine and gearbox but the Atlas had upright cylinders, the Command had the cylinders angled forward.

[@IVAN-bs5bq]

Where do they get the presenters from - one thing for sure they have never ridden a motorcycle !

[@carlnapp4412]

Moto Guzzi five-seven. Thanks a bomb! The most advanced feature of the Honda CB 750 was the fact that one had to remove the whole engine in order to retighten the head bolts!

[@joepkortekaas8813]

Maybe so, but it was hardly ever needed!

[@blackholeentry3489]

My very 1st motorcycle was a 46 Harley 61 I purchased in '56, and rode four Harleys over a period of 13 years, including 100 miles/day to work for three years, putting a total of 150K on them. I was aware of the Japanese movement, and as the 'motorcycle guru' of my family, neighborhood and where I worked, someone was always bringing their motorcycle by for me to test and evaluate. While I always found something nice to say, but frankly, was unimpressed! Then, my BIL stopped by with a brand new Honda 750. I took it for a short ride....GOODbye Harley and I've never looked back! Now, at age 84, just gave me last Honda ST1100 to my youngest son. BHE

[@dicky1961AD]

Had a BSA,rebuilt Spitfire Hornet 650,Triumph dual carb.Very pleasant,reliable old bikes.❤

[@georgeday5901]

Actually vincent ran a bike in early 50's on a track that hit over 150 M P H

[@jameseaton4593]

Yes! I think John Surtees used to race them in the mid-50's But do we need to modify everydamnthing with term : " iconic?"

[@simongkay]

Someone needs to buy this guy a thesaurus and expand his vocabulary a bit. I lost count of the number of bikes he described as either "timeless", "iconic" or quite often both!

[@peterforden5917]

1 had a BSA bantam,,,,It was a war reparartions machine redesign from a Wehrmakt DKW 125..

[@MegaBruceC]

I had one of those T500s Damn quick!!!

[@manjacovus5342]

Me too!

[@TheoBerkhout]

Unbelievable: you completely missed Laverda! Also the Laverda S, SF and certainly the SFC were iconic at that time in Europe!!

[@dimitrisregoukos5902]

Well i have to say to you tha Laverdas of the era were a real pain in the arse. i used to own a SF 750/2 and it was highly unrelyble consering electics.

[@johnwoodrow8769]

Having owned a new CB750 I think the description of it as reliable and pedestrian is reasonably accurate. The front single disk was next to useless, the rear drum locked up over corrugated bumps, headlight non existent, would go into tank slappers for no apparent reason. But it was reliable.

[@GeneMcCoy-q3e]

My Honda 305 Super Hawk from 1965 carried a lot of Brit bike riders home to get a pickup truck. How could you forget Lucus the "Prince of Darkness"? The biggest reason to give up on British. I also had a CB 750 with 105,000 original engine miles.

[@KookieMonster-d8n]

Jay Leno shown riding his many classic bikes.

[@53jed]

The Isolastic engine mounting system was a bunch of rubber grommets fitted between the engine and the frame so the engine wouldn't shake the bike to bite in the first hundred miles. Necessary but hardly ground-breaking.

[@superblackbirdful]

NORTON 650 SS WAS A BREAKTHROUGH IN TECHNOLOGY AND MOST POPULAR THAN NORTON ATLAS

[@greglindstrom6816]

My 1st Brit bike and best! It had the small tank, Lucas comp. mag, John Tickle RE TLS brake, narrow line featherbed frame, Road holder forks and the lovely Chronometric instruments, and it didn't vibrate much! I've been trying to find another for years.

[@JillandKevin]

And the 750/850 Commando (shown and labeled as an Atlas) was the pinnacle (and sadly, the end) of Norton, besides a couple of rotary powered police bikes & prototypes)

[@gregnorth6413]

Norton 500/650SS, truely great motorcycles. My two school friends had them. Still a majestic sight.

[@christopherbalnaves8651]

Too many errors in this e.g. AJS7R being used on the road.

[@Wedge-r9o]

Pretty good summary of some bikes I’d like to ride some day …

[@jeffreyguttenberger]

I owned a Kawsaki H1 Mach III. It was fast!. It also chewed up driveline components, clutch chain, gears, cush drive. Engine was solid though.

[@georgeday5901]

The bonnie was a 50's bike born in late 50's

[@Luppy-v8f]

Ram air was Suzuki GT

[@warren6899]

From South Africa toured the whole of this country on one of these, then i had the privledge of sitting the GT 500....

[@Ian-bq7gp]

The original Guzzis from 1970 wasbetter than the later ones. The original BSA goldie DBD34 500cc with close ratio RRT2 gearbox was a true work of art like manx nortons almost.

[@josvandencamp8441]

I would go for the BMW R 69S or the R 75/5. More power you don't need to have fun. Very reliable bikes.

[@perpehrson9576]

Proud owner of a R69S. An iconic bike...No plastic and electronics! Runs and drive fine even for todays standards ;-)

[@faerieSAALE]

The motorcycles I want again are The BSA 500cc Shooting Star, BSA 650cc Golden Flash, BSA 650cc Super Rocket, The Norton ES2 500cc single-cylinder heavy frame, The Honda CB450cc twin, The Kawasaki H1 650cc twin, BMW R69 S 600cc with a sidecar.

[@tommurphree5630]

The Royal Enfield 750 Interceptor with single overhead cam was the fastest production motorcycle at one time in the sixties . Was that 1969 ? I forget . There was also the Kawasaki Blue Streak 3 cylinder two stroke . A dangerous bike . I think it also had another name . Those were the two fastest as I remember , when they first came out .

[@RobRooster-u9n]

The Royal Enfield Interceptor was just a bored out and modified version of the PUSHROD OHV twin. It also pissed oil out of every orifice. It steered ok and was well balanced and smooth for the time, “ Fast”? Sorry, the Beezer Spitfire was probably the fastest of the era of British production bikes, faster than Triumph’s Bonneville by maybe 10 mph. The epitome of Brit bikes was actually a hybrid, NorVin, a Norton “Wideline Featherbed” frame loaded with a Vincent 1,000cc V twin . The Vincent V Twin has been developed to achieve probably the most power per cc in any pushrod engine, the “ Irving Vincent “ is a serious club racer still today in Australia.

[@m.f.m.67]

"Get ready for the smooth ride of the Harley Davidson." 🤣🤣🤣Obviously, he's never ridden a 1960's Harley.

[@janvoster3220]

There was the 305 Yamaha 2stroke as well clock speed 105 mph.

[@russbilzing5348]

As well as the 305 Honda SuperHawk and the 305 Suzuki.

[@KookieMonster-d8n]

My mom used to call the counter culture 'Trust fund kids' If you bucked the system,they would throw you out of town!

[@kentilly6160]

My Rhodesian surgeon would greet us bikers, relaxing in the orthopaedic ward while getting repaired, with the words, "Good morning future donors!" I was in there so often he got to greet me by my first name! I saw him in a South African orthopaedic ward much later and he recognised me and Jee zuss Ken, don't you ever learn?

[@thestone3849]

Out of your list we have now few of them running in India like Royal Enfield (almost the same and interceptor too) , BSA Gold Star, Now Norton is also on its way to India.

[@raymondsanderson3768]

I never saw that bike in the opening picture back in the sixties!

[@ww-bp9el]

The first bike in most shots was an 850 Eldorado

[@davidsaunby5208]

Where is the MV Agusta which world champion Giacomo Agostini rode to many world championships. You even showed the Indian 650 BSA wannabe Gold Star.

[@DURAK69]

Nr 1 NORTON COMMADO Best bike ever

[@johnboluski-zl1qn]

Still quoting many, ridiculously over- exaggerated top speeds. Childish!

[@raybrensike42]

I would like to see a modern version of the triple Kaws, with newly designed pistons that eliminate piston slap, direct fuel injection which improves power and gas mileage, and perhaps water cooling. Maybe there should be an air-cooled model, and a water cooled one. I would also like to see an updated Yamaha 400 two stroke. Maybe make it 500cc or more. How about a V6? I also liked the Indian 4.

[@kentilly6160]

A friend of mine owned a Benelli 6 cylinder bike that we nicknamed V6 due to the 3 silencers on each side formed a V shape when viewed from the rear. Beautiful bike.

[@paulblouin6955]

I owned a series 1 1/2 Royal Enfield Interceptor. The year before it got a Norton fork. It was sliw compared to the Commando I owned at the same time.

[@Ian-bq7gp]

You had an A10 rocket gold star 650cc twin in one of the photos. The gold star was a single of 350 and 500cc.

[@Ian-bq7gp]

Norton Commando was such a lovely bike. Yes Ducati was a nice bike but the 900SS would blowup within 20000 miles from new. The BSA rocket 3 was very fast at the time and had a better frame than Triumph tridents. BSA frames were always really well designed and made with duplex cradle rather than single tube of triumph twins. 😊

[@stephaneckes7438]

The BMW R 69 was only looking in the US-version! Trucky.

[@KookieMonster-d8n]

The Honda 550,released in 1970,was a huge success.

[@ramblerdave1339]

1970 is no longer the "sixties".

[@mygreatbigfoot1679]

The twin headlights on the bsa lightning? Chrome and brightly coloured paint, mudguards and centre stands, pre-austerity era bikes.

[@northdakotaham1752]

They had just one large headlight.

[@stephenwalsh1332triumph]

Where's the SUZUKI 750 Water bottle heaps of guts with drum brakes 😵

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

From the 70’s.

[@raysargent4055]

You missed out the Matchless?

[@davidn8759]

I want my BSA Gold star again

[@blackholeentry3489]

For years I rode a bike with a custom frame featuring a Gold Star engine....best hill climber I ever had!

[@Ian-bq7gp]

Wow the Matchless G50 being so fast and refined. 135mph 52bhp isthat correct?

[@petesteirer]

'74 Yamaha TX500

[@georgeday5901]

Yea rocket 3 no mirrors ,no indicators no electric start,and I think they still ran 6 v electrics

[@iankeith763]

Indicators, yes, 12v electrics, mirrors, no, electric start is for fairies, no need.

[@richardeldridge5305]

The fastest were capable of a rather modest 115 MPH.

[@bobcrooks2344]

Bsa lightning never had twin headlights.

[@windyworm]

The Motoguzzi? Really?

[@GrahamMidwinter-hg5br]

BSA 500 gold star was fast.

[@rinkadink66]

who writes this balls? 😂

[@johnturner2965]

norton 650 ss

[@RobRooster-u9n]

When did BSA make AJS?

[@billygoatgruff2554]

Yamaha XS650 reaching 115 miles per hour…….. you are ‘aving a laugh… I bought one brand new. Top speed just over 80…. Even when run in….

[@andrewpowell1078]

Where is the 160mph mighty mz

[@bob521i]

Mostly twaddle.

[@PetervanderVeen-vr5ii]

Suzuki T20; Suzuk GT 750.

[@fabbri4497]

Honda CB77 305cc 28.5HP SAE... 105MPH. The others must probably be cheating...

[@charlesbynum]

My Super Hawk told me we were going 105 mph too, but I think it was being optimistic.

[@kttrouble7053]

No bmw r 90s ?

[@dannymcdaniel1652]

Norton

[@KookieMonster-d8n]

The Bonneville t120 was known to do approximately 95 m.p.h.

[@bradcobb3418]

Nope I saw 125mph on TT circuit. admittedly the Smiths clocks were infamously inaccurate by about 5-10%.

[@9014jayvictor]

@@bradcobb3418 Mine would indicate 125 mph

[@andym5588]

You cant argue with ignorance!

[@muzza881]

This video is a joke.

[@pierreleroux2441]

Certainly NO British shite.

[@keylogger430]

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