Biggest motorcycle race of the year?! King Kenny Rides again at the AMAZING BARBER VINTAGE FESTIVAL!

[@donaldhipple4921]

Thanks Mark and Kevin for another great podcast. ARMA racing is such fine community of like minded folks. Everything you said about it is true. I do have to get myself to the Barber motorsport museum.

[@GeneCash]

"Incremental progress vs. excremental progress" - I'm going to have to steal that!

[@magellanicspaceclouds]

Yes, that line is perfect! I'm surprised I haven't heard it before.

[@DanMay2000]

Great episode, thanks for racing my bike and supporting AHRMA.

[@corndog6700]

Mark, Kevin, I enjoy your show more and more every episode. It's getting better and better. I couldn't go to the AHRMA show, but I've been going to Laguna since Yvon DuHammel was crashing there. A long time ago. This year though, the stars lined up, and I had a chance to go to Assen for the TT. If you haven't gone, it's a very cool deal, the town of Assen pulls out their lawn chairs on the last day and lines the roads leaving. It really warms the heart to see this, right up to including a 1970s CHP car parked by a canal on the way out. Give it a shot, it was the best vacation I ever had.

[@boofer875]

Thanks for making this content. I don't have any old riding friends to talk with any more. Riding is ageing out, in my opinion. It may be saved by lady riders. It's the same with shooting. I will be teaching a young lady to shoot this week for personal safety. Not for comaraderie. Like the 'stache, but it's harder to tell you two apart. I Started riding in the '60s. Honda Super 90, 1969 H1, H2, now 99 Magna I bought from my 90 yr old riding buddy. Thanks from Northeast Mississippi. Barry

[@philbro1829]

I hope you all find the TRUTH... I'm a normal guy who WHO UNDERSTAND, wtf... wake up 🎉😂

[@someonethatwatchesyoutube2953]

I was there too and it was fantastic. I raced the XC and Mx races, strolled the swap meet, watched some road racing, and had great conversations with strangers but that museum just blew me away. I’d wanted to explore it for years, had some idea what it offered, and was wonderfully overwhelmed. What an amazing event. See you next year and every year thereafter!

[@blacklight4460]

Great show as usual! Thanks for sharing your experience. Thanks for adding something to my bucket list! 😊

[@markhoyer1736]

It is such a wonderful event overall and have AHRMA there racing everything adds such a dimension to the experience. Motorcycle Culture Overload!

[@vibratrem]

Thanks for sharing, I had a friend race a triumph there and also I follow iconic motorbikes and was blown away by the atmosphere and have it on my list for next year. It isTHE national event I'm aware of. Kenny Roberts attending and riding THE bike is just incredible and a big draw to the community.

[@Dee-xm4jb]

Thank you Mark and Kevin for your superb coverage of Barber and thank you AHRMA for putting together such an incredible event where one can savor the incredible sport of motorcycle roadracing on two wheels and three wheels. I missed it this year but your excellent coverage brought back years of memories having raced with or admired as a spectator, King Kenny at Daytona, meeting Cook and Kevin at the Simeone Museum, seeing Nate Kern fly at NJMP and seeing Dave Roper riding fast on many fabulous machines or meeting Chuck at NJMP this past summer riding a Britten. The art and culture of motorcycling lives on! Thank you!

[@48jerrybiker]

I too was there 3 days ago. Got my picture with Kenny & Kenny Jr. If you haven’t been there you need to put this on your things to do list. The swap meet was so big, I only made it through half. If you are planning to take a demo ride, sign up early. Some had a day & half waiting list.

[@ZonkerRoberts]

"There's not a lot of flywheel mass" Great description of Kenny Roberts!

[@Simulera]

This channel has the best moto content, you guys are great.

[@robert-wr6md]

Totally.

[@robbjones6012]

Thanks for giving a shout out to Dave Roper, just to watch his race craft is something else up close, Great guy to talk to. I had a picture of him winning @ the Isle of Man on my college wall..

[@billstuart8481]

In 2003, I was privileged to attend the first race ever at Barber, a two day Superbike event. I tied my tent on the back of my Buell S3T and headed to Birmingham from St Augustine, spending a few days up and down the Dragon along the way. Having bought one of the first 500 tickets, I was awarded a parade lap. Anyone that was there can attest that as this was Barbers first event, they didn't quite have a grip on securing that parade lap! Foolishly, on a track no one had ever rode, it became a melee. Fulldress baggers scraping floorboards quickly disappeared in my mirror as I, an Aprillia and two Gixxers pulled away from the mob. Amazingly, we even almost made another lap before the Alabama Highway Patrol finally stopped the the shenanigans. No one crashed and the racing was world class.

[@tonypalermo5796]

I watched King Kenny race a 500 at Laguna Seca in the early 80s, what a lasting memory.

[@larryt.atcycleitalia5786]

I'll never forget an AMA race at Sears Point. The King couldn't find neutral on the grid so circled around behind everyone else until the green flag dropped. Despite being pointed the wrong way when the flag dropped he passed everyone to win going away. THAT's when I knew I was seeing something special!

[@magellanicspaceclouds]

I would love to go to the festival one day. Sounds like great fun.

[@AfricaTwin-Stuff]

Another riveting episode. Thanks from down here in Oz.

[@drgallup]

I had a 1/2 day visit at the museum on my way home from New Orleans this spring. Fantastic, all my old bikes were there. I practically had to run, not nearly enough time. I remember Cook Nielson and Cycle Magazine. I read and re-read every issue for decades.

[@presstodelete1165]

I have had the pleasure of doing laps with Phil Read and Agostini many times, thanks to our mutual membership of the UK MV Owners club. One of our members managed to persuade John Surtees, also a member, to part with his MV500 GP bike. Peter let me sit on it, but I never dared ask for a ride. It's one of the stars in Barbour Museum now.

[@stevefowler2112]

Regarding Ago...I heard Kel Carruthers tell a story about the TZ750 that you might get a kick out of. Kel said Yamaha shipped over a couple of the new TZ750's (those would have been the 700 version) for Yamaha's factory riders in America to see what they thought of them. So the four factory riders were Kenny, Ago, Romero and I can't remember the 4th, maybe Baker? Kel said they went to a south Cali race track and all four ran some laps...Kel stated "two of the riders couldn't even rid it"..."Ago could ride it", "but Kenny had by far the quickest lap times".

[@markbrown-us4xe]

My logic slipped away when the race was on and sometimes I crashed. Still smiling at the end of the day. Thanks and looking forward to your next podcast.

[@ulhpilot7757]

Spanish engineer Antonio Cobas is widely credited as the originator of the aluminum frame chassis, like the 2.0 version used on the 0W bikes. He was a builder of aluminum framed Gran Prix bikes. BTW I’m really enjoying the podcast 👍

[@stevebigansky9372]

I was there tuning a TZ250 for my friend Shawn Woolery and decided to take a spin around the facility on our Honda pit bike after Saturday's qualifying races- the place was PACKED! all the campgrounds were completely full - it was like a friggin mob scene- and then I got to watch King Kenny spinning some laps on his almighty YZR500 - I'll definitely be there again next year

[@eddiebaird8368]

Great pod cast , was a print edition reader for a long long time

[@engranger]

I live in Ohio and have been to races and Vintage days at Mid-Ohio many times, it is very convenient. Gonna have to go to Barber for the museum, the swap meet, and to see the King.

[@josephreisinger33]

Thank you gentlemen for a wonderful inside look at Barber. That wonderful place I hope to see in person before I do a dirt nap. Take care. Till next time. 1:12:00

[@DavidPrather-q5m]

Great podcast. Definitely have the Barber AHRMA event on the calendar for next year.

[@russellbuonasera4786]

Ty for this recap et al. Had my heart set on a road trip to the Barber Vintage event you’re reporting on, a medical hiccup killed the plan. Will be there next year even I I have to hire an ambulance for the journey.

[@bretloyd8097]

Hooooweeee. . . Roberts IS a living museum. . btw Mr Hoyer, congrats on your airhead result. Pleasing to know that the US still has a motorcycle racing culture. It's pretty much fractured here in Australia.

[@dukecraig2402]

I wish Barry Sheene was still around, to me he was what racing was all about, as a kid in America in the 70's to me he was like James Bond on a motorcycle, he had all the personality that racers are supposed to have, nowadays they have their official speech they're supposed to give after a race and it's turned the sport into a real snooze fest, Sheene was a rock star and they won't let racers be like that anymore. I was so excited 7 or 8 (however long it was) years ago when Steve Parrish announced that they were going to make a movie about him, and then nothing, I'm only subscribed to 4 KZbin channels and that's one of them, even though there hasn't been anything on it since then I stay subscribed to it hoping one day it comes back alive and announces they're going forward with the movie. The 70's was the greatest era in motorcycle racing, all forms of it, Bruce Browns movie On Any Sunday ushered in the decade of the motorcycle and people like Barry Sheene made it the golden era of motorcycle racing, in 79 when he passed Roberts at Silverstone and threw those two fingers up behind his back it's got to be the greatest moment in the history of the sport, it doesn't matter that Roberts won the race, that moment made Barry Sheene immortal, I still want to stand up and cheer every time I see it. There'll never be another like him.

[@robertrishel3685]

Damn it! I hate that I missed that Barbers event! I visit the museum at least twice a year and wanted to go, but had to work that weekend…. Bummer, would have been really cool to see Kevin Cameron and Kenny Roberts in the flesh.

[@flathead1930]

Great show

[@nitrousninja882]

The Dutch grass farmer who beat Roberts was Wil Hartog.

[@guylr7390]

Great weekend, great bikes and great people. Thanks for the shout outs to Chuck Huneycutt and Gary Braun. Chuck sweated the details on the OW48 and Kenny enjoyed riding it again. Some interesting info we learned on the OW is that the rings it uses are the very same 1.2mm thick, 240 prefix rings used in the 1970 TD2 🔧🏁

[@billprodoehl60]

a couple other museums beyond Barber and air force museum , are the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn MI, and Technik Museum Sinsheim Germany. Both are fantastic multi day visits.

[@westondifranco9313]

At 29 years old, I feel as if I have pulled the curtain back to the next layer of motorcycling. I listen to the history of the R1 video constantly while working on its younger brother. (My 03 FZ1). I love these podcasts, the more the better! 😊

[@YouCantSawSawdust]

At 29 years of age, you should primarily be concerned with pulling back the beef curtains.

[@westondifranco9313]

@@YouCantSawSawdust I was married for 8 years, had 2 kids and my wife left me. Motorcycling> women.

[@nitrousninja882]

Riders who beat Kenny Roberts on the track on certain occasions. Yvon DuHamel, Barry Sheene, Steve Baker, Freddie Spencer, Johnny Cecotto and a Dutch farmer whose name I can't recall at the moment.

[@robbjones6012]

Will Hartog ......

[@robbjones6012]

Will Hartog...

[@robbjones6012]

Will Hartog....

[@robbjones6012]

Will Hartog .....

[@robbjones6012]

Will Hartog..

[@yorkchris10]

I had a '64 MGB that still used a dynamo generator. I did get it rewound once and another time I put in a rebuilt unit, but it still used a bronze bushing at the non pulley end that required manual lubrication. I finally adapted a GM alternator and converted to negative ground. I'm really in favor of working classics. I eventually bought one of the last MGB's produced and got to see the positive and negative changes over time.

[@tomtaylor6163]

I’m liking the stash good look lol

[@WaldoHiding]

Rock on 👍

[@mikehancock6280]

Two stroke fever

[@cheesenoodles8316]

Yikes, I do remember racing a modified RD 400 at the OCIR drag strip.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Kenny sold most of his Proton bikes and parts to a Collector in South Africa. I hope all those bikes can make it to a Museaum in the USA some day.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

I never saw Kenny Roberts take an easy lap if the Two Stroke Yamaha had modern tires on it he might be putting in some very fast lap times.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Kenny Roberts helped to Develop the Lectron Carburetor and he built his own Two Stroke Fuel Injected race bikes the Proton.

[@copperaudio9664]

USGP - The Laguna Seca infield in the early 80's wasn't bad either.

[@turbosteve84]

George Barber -- a Dairy Heir.

[@Scott-sb1xi]

Is Barber a bigger event than Vintage days at Mid-Ohio?

[@cycleworld]

VMD seems to get about 40,000 spectators and Barber Vintage Festival in 2023 was reported on the order of 80,000.

[@Scott-sb1xi]

@cycleworld My opinion is Vintage Days isn't the same since they dropped AHRMA. I haven't been in 5 years tho.

[@tommywilliams5734]

Haven't attended Ohio in years. Lifetime charter member of ama but Barbers is where I go every year.

[@YouCantSawSawdust]

"There's no such thing as a natural". Obviously he had not encountered Anthony Gobert at that time.

[@philbro1829]

Thanks 😂

[@flathead1930]

After seeing your stash I will never grow one

[@philbro1829]

That's the LOVELY in motorcycle RACING... There's never enough money to fund increase TECHNOLOGY 😮

[@douglasgrosch228]

what is going on with motorcycle industry ?? sales bikes tech power motors no more 600s ??? R 9 types do a show on this dealerships not selling bikes and older guys holding it up.. .. thanks

[@captaintoyota3171]

No one buys superbikes anymore. Thats why kawasaki is leaving motorsport all together, and why yamaha etc r reducing models. Only niche market premium bikes like ducatti etc are profitable sadly. Unless sporty bikes become huge in USA over harleys the superbike for working man is dead

[@philbro1829]

Have you ever considered the weight to strenth ratio ??? BIKES HANDLE FOR A REASON... PHYSICS 🎉😮😅

[@philbro1829]

Hey brother.... do loose the hair. 😢 keep the broadcasts for the CYCLISTS etc... thanks guys

[@ericalger5003]

Is that the same Brian Case of MOTUS??

[@cycleworld]

The very same, yes!