500cc World Champion Rides Factory RC500 at Iconic Track!

[@gmurrayf]

I remember watching and recording it on a Video 2000 machine! It was on either Grandstand or World of Sport (Dickie Davies). Replayed it many times. I was 16yo and was racing a CR125. The only way you could follow him winning the World Championship was by getting Trials and Motocross News at the end of the week! Unless you lived through this, it would be impossible to appreciate how special that bike was and how good a rider Dave Thorpe was.

[@warrenhoare2852]

This brings back so many incredible memories. To see Thorpe and Noyce together again…. I’m sure Eric and Andre were smiling down on them. NO REGRETS👍

[@999lazer]

100 percent :)

[@tonypalmer7779]

Legend great to see Dave Thorpe still excited opening her up that hill

[@mentalmaxi5555]

the sound of that bike is like no other 500, truly a special moment, very glad I got to be there for it, keep the great vids coming dude

[@BatFastard01]

When I was 15\16 yr old lad, DT was a Hero of mine. Great seeing him riding that 500 again! 👍

[@thomashoglund3472]

I saw Thorpe, Malherbe and Geboers in Vimmerby 86, they where a great team this three world champions. Nice video Max!

[@franciscolopez3229]

I bet it was pure goosebumps seeing this motocross legends on the track. " Iconic noise ". Very true.

[@999lazer]

it certainly was Francis

[@bertbroeder1832]

Had the pleasure MXdN 1985 and 1989 with a lot of works bike with a lot HRC stuff. One year, 1985, Dave had these gold blue YOKO pants. Had MDS helmet and couldn't get the Oakley that time and bought the Scott André had. Of course I had white-blue AXO's! So happy and thankful to be on my 10/20thiest those days. Thank you all!

[@ragnarironspear1791]

Dave was one of my heroes back in the day

[@999lazer]

he is such a great guy and so kind to wear our gopro for us all to see this special moment :)

[@cosmicsurfer5911]

Oh man, that must have been such a memory flashback. Freaking awesome 🙏💪👊

[@glennwoods2462]

Dave Thorpe and Graeme Noyce..... And Andre Malherbe's race bike Only on Lazer 999 👌 Cheers Max 👏👏

[@999lazer]

Thanks Glenn :)

[@russellhelms2835]

“How cool was that” at the end…well, it was the Gold standard of exceptionally well done! Seriously great channel and also camera work, content, people involved, editing, and the final. Top of the world great🏆

[@mikehudgens7007]

WOW - all I can say !!!!! Thorpe , Noyce etc - the euro hero's of our time !!!! Hard to believe it has been 40 years and thank's for the internet and Capt 999laser we are able to relive this time again !!! I remember meeting Danny Chandler in 1983 at Millville MN aka "spring creek " it was the highlite of my mx time as Magoo is my favorite rider , he hands down beat the compition that day in the 500 class on his Honda - I was very excited when Danny went to race the 500cc world championships on his KTM 500 , he won the French GP that year and had a bad crash where I believe the rear shock broke and he sat out a few rounds but did finish 3rd in the series I believe ??? Sorry to ramble on but this video brings back memorys , I raced the 500 class in 83/84 on a can-am mx 500 and in 85 my father bought me the ever so potent 85 Honda cr500 - and I raced it for a couple years and then switched to a KX 500 - man those were the days !!!!! The honda's in your video are simply amazing and what a treat to start out friday with !!!! Thank you 999lazer 🏁

[@Zulululu4x]

Thank you for sharing British Mx history with us yanks ! 🇺🇸🏁👍🏽

[@martinwall212]

Fantastic video max thank you DT is a gentleman 👍👍

[@matthillier27]

Absolutely no words 👌

[@svenomick5857]

What a Hero and what a Bike sounds so Crisp great Work

[@999lazer]

Thanks

[@jiriprivora9649]

3 legends, Noyce,Thorpe,RC 500

[@DavidPike-uf4ep]

I feel really lucky to have seen the GP’s back in the late 80s early 90s watching DT rip, actually had the pleasure of being on the same practice track made you realise slow you actually were 😂

[@bsmith4u2]

All I can say is Thank You for sharing this with the world of MX.

[@downtherange]

Absolutely awesome I was in the crowd cheers ✨👍🏻🏁🏁🏁

[@John-y3s]

Bloody hell I was there in 1985 I feel so old now ha ha ha 😂 at 58 !!!

[@davidgreen1337]

Well that's just done it for me. Remember as a kid watching Thorpey at Cuerden. Now gone to m65 :( I'm 60 next year I'm definitely getting that enduro now 😊

[@MikeAsbury-ti2yx]

Very nice thanks for videos

[@xipingpooh5783]

Great to see Dave on Big Red again!!!!

[@robertrishel3685]

The sounds of those big 500’s😍😍😍

[@tonyw3250]

I used to watch these 2 in my early teens - legends

[@MikeAsbury-ti2yx]

You have to remember he's running a small rear sprocket on that 70HP RC500 so definitely has street type gearing? but still cool to see ride around?

[@ianwallett7438]

Yeah I was one of Dave’s fans, lost my voice screaming on the track side. 😁👍

[@MikeAsbury-ti2yx]

the 83, RC500,s would be cool to see again

[@bluehazeboy]

I was always into road racing at that time,I had the privilege to be at the 1979 sheene & Robert’s battle,& Robert’s & Spencer & the schwantz & Rainey battle at the transatlantic races,some really really great racing & I watched the races from farleigh castle last week & that had me on the edge of my seat,proper hard racing 🤟🤟🤟

[@Gpx111]

I went and watched Farleigh when I was 6 in 1989 was the best gp I ever went to there is a 89 review on duke vids it's a must to watch

[@redvraider5071]

Thanks mate, I loved noyce on the maicos

[@lukecombs5242]

Awesome video what a wonderful tribute ❤

[@999lazer]

Glad you liked it

[@iansmith8704]

well done everyone, nice to see.

[@chrisbatstone9742]

❤❤max im glad as young kid in 70s and 80s 90s as sdult got see there whole careers gave me goosebumps rip my Belgian idol andre we will never forget him 😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@cat-im4vv]

Absolutely amazing!!!

[@999lazer]

cheers

[@angelosantaniello4113]

Fantastic Max

[@999lazer]

thanks

[@ChanseMartin222]

Wow king of kings all the way around!

[@craiggiles8156]

The smell of Castrol R must have been something else.

[@999lazer]

it sure was :)

[@ozzielinkin]

I d like the sound of him getting on it as my ringtone

[@RobsNeighbor]

Love it!!!

[@arthurdunga345]

sounded great

[@mattdedasc]

You lot are going to make me buy a 2 stroke MX bike again!!!

[@Fixoldstuff]

Is a 87 rm250 worth it love your vids 2 strokes for life

[@MikeAsbury-ti2yx]

999lazer should do more 1979-80, CR250 videos find good red rockets to ride that run correctly not weird carburetor tuning because some run like shit lol

[@andrewmoylan6295]

Can't take the boy out of the older boy Max 😅 poping wheelies with sneakers and hoodie on ...unreal

[@999lazer]

haha, so true :)

[@waynejackson3739]

I have a 1985 gp programme fully signed by all the greats priceless to me ❤

[@albertking7012]

Epic, that's all I can say! 🤙

[@Sn0w1981]

Surreal!

[@ozzielinkin]

BRAAAAAAP

[@markconnery2836]

LETS GET 999 1MILL SUBS THIS CHANNEL 999L DESERVES WAY MORE SUBS‼️✌️

[@paulwilliams8588]

Bloody marvelous.. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@gdv4612]

Special sound that 500 you can see Thorpe just got 20 yrs younger.

[@jasonpardoe1408]

Brilliant 👌👊❤️🇬🇧

[@irod2821]

Very cool👊

[@JustAbsolutelyRandomShit]

Nice to see Dave on the back wheel 💨

[@999lazer]

i think he enjoyed the ride :)

[@swedish_sadhguru3854]

I would pay good money to see Carson Brown ride this bike hard.

[@err4071]

It would never happen bud, the bikes worth a quarter of million pounds thats why Dave is pottering around in the video. The 1985 MX des nations video is probably the best footage of one of these bikes being put to its limits, or the 1985 British 500 GP at Farleigh Castle.

[@swedish_sadhguru3854]

@@err4071 Haha that is true, I will check it out.

[@garytauber430]

Thorpe is my hero mx rider

[@999lazer]

He's a legend! We have to pinch ourselves after we talk with him sometimes. Thanks for watching Gary

[@stkyfngrszmooth]

I can't help but point out that when Dave was talking about the noise of the big works RC 500 two-stroke and how it was what left the biggest impression on him made me realize this is exactly why electric bikes suck.

[@cedhome7945]

Are you going to get a leg over the bsa any time soon?

[@999lazer]

that could be interesting...

[@davidmotoman4956]

That was somthin Else Dave Thorpe On The Works RC 500 Honda 😃

[@adrianpierce3047]

CR 500, I had the Andre Malherbe mds full face mx lid

[@ОктайМехмедов]

👍👍👍

[@djpete8725]

Yeah cool, but get Johnny O'Mara to ride the same year 125 next to him...that would be interesting.

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

YEAH THAT WAS SO FUNNY, THE OSHOW PASSING AND BLOWING AWAY THORP ON A STOCK FACTORY CR125, THORP ON A FACTORY HRC WORKS 500, so much for the works cr500 power, what an embarrassment

[@djpete8725]

@@volksdeutschewaffenss9670 It's 80 % rider and 20% bike so....

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

@@djpete8725 not when its a cr125 against a cr500, have you ever raced a cr500 against a 125 and the HP power difference, thats like saying a good driver in a hillman minx on a race track will beat a world champion driver in a Porsche 911, are you on METH OR WEED ....????????????

[@err4071]

@@volksdeutschewaffenss9670 It was revenge for 1985 when thorpe embarrassed the whole American team with legends such as David Bailey and Jeff Ward all on factory machines. That day Bailey also got smoked by Ron Lechien his teammate in moto 3 on a 125 as well lol. Sometimes sh-t happens and occasionally results like that can happen in MX. I have been to many open class races where a talented rider on a 125 has beaten other talented riders on 250's and 500's on small technical tracks, so it does happen. In thorpes case though it was more of a case of fatigue and mistakes and poor riding on the day.

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

@@err4071 yes so embarrassing for Thorpe being world mx 500 champion being smashed thrashed by a production cr125 with less than half the power on an open out door track that suits the big bore 500s, you can bet Thorpe rode back to the pits with his tail between his legs after that race , it was not Torpes day alright cheers

[@ОктайМехмедов]

👌👌👌👌👌

[@andreacioni1271]

Che trio hrc a montevarchi andre' eric, david André la classe lo stile, arrivò con il testarossa eric la forza la volontà di vincere mister 875 unico,e david un gigante in mezzo ai due il paddock honda era stupendo tazze e piatti hrc tutto ordinato poi jobe' con l'anteriore kawa da 20',e il mito in ktm danny magoo chandler guidava la 500 come un 125 che fenomeni saluti

[@propacollector3499]

a tier

[@lowellfunk8974]

What's an RC 500? Never heard of it! We have 2 CR 500's though! Is it a european bike model?😮

Like hearing your first born cry

[@johngray722]

i bet thats one scary bike

[@FULLBOREBIKES]

❤❤❤❤🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻😊😊😊😊

[@DizzleMX32]

wtf he was wearing trainers haha thats so scary

[@tessbushell5489]

🧊 😎👍🏻

[@alfredubels8517]

Nice gays end Bikes

[@craigdawson3450]

Rc 500 ???

[@999lazer]

rc's are the factory bikes

[@craigdawson3450]

@@999lazer like a special race bike ??? What does factory bike mean mate ??

[@RomaniaMoto]

You need Giraffe arms and a Hippopotamus body to pull back that throttle 500hp or to giant watermelons

[@markhills3922]

Um....Gary Jones was Honda's first world MX champion in '73...before MXGP became a thing.

[@peterfurber6966]

Um. No he wasn't. He was national champion NOT World champion. Doh.

[@peterfurber6966]

Um. The world championship started late 1950's.

[@markhills3922]

@@peterfurber6966 yeah ok...sure...whatever you say genius

[@markhills3922]

@@peterfurber6966 world championship wasn't MXGP now was it Einstein?

[@peterfurber6966]

@@markhills3922 it wasn't MXGP then your correct. It was the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 🙄

[@benjaminnixon2662]

first

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

DID A STOCK CR125 BEAT THIS BIKE , A WORKS HRC RC500 in world championship event, LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[@Kicacanalong]

Was this better than the 1st showing in the paddock YES Was it as good as I had hoped NO Why, because the majority of the clip was interviews and evan once on track they did little more than put around Not evan a good full throttle run down a straight just a few short squirts and one small wheelie from a distance Yes it was better than nothing but overall was dissapointed Sorry

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

why was Dawson out there stealing the lime lite, a billionaire riding laps with world MX champions just to raise charity money WTF, if hes a billionaire with money to burn he doesn't need to even be on the track raising money, just donate it, laim excuse, amazing what money buys you, should have stayed in the back ground and enjoyed the day

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

why is a filthy rich billionaire leading out the parade lap of world champions, WTF, EXCUSE just to raise money for charity, WTF cant he just donate some money to the charity and stay in the back ground, this is so wrong, a billionaire with loads of money buying his own ticket to ride a parade lap with world champions, using raising money for charity as a reason, WHAT A DISGRACE AND SCAM

[@Kalus_Saxon]

0:33 what is that behind the back lever? Pond pump filter ? Is that factory ? 😂

[@10wsnorty]

I’m guessing to stop rubbing up the frame

[@ОктайМехмедов]

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