Honda 250CC - 6 cylinder, Honda 125CC - 5 cylinder start-up. Mike Hailwood IOM TT 500CC
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@h1aa14 жыл бұрын
Funny to hear the old single banger plod by at 27 and then hear the fabulous Honda burst into life.
@5769JJ14 жыл бұрын
This was built back with Mr. Sochiro Honda was running the show. He was an old racer, and he was HEAVILY involved in building race bikes. He completely dominated everything at that time.
@blackbirdtwigg16 жыл бұрын
Stuart Graham actually rode a 6 on Douglas prom during a demo at the 2007 T.T. I have never in my life heard anything like it ! The now sadly departed Geoff Cannell said on the p.a."please be upstanding for the Japanese national anthem" then they fired the 6 up !!!! Absolute music !! Thanks for posting this !
@ColinTipton13 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed these bikes were so fast that most people could not handle them. I absolutely loved the 2 strokers of yesteryear. My first experience was on a RD 350 which I could not keep on the ground. Put that 6cylinder motor in a modern frame with state of the art brakes and I do believe that nothing in today's market could touch it.
@gm16v14913 жыл бұрын
The 250 and 297cc sixes were probably the most incredible sounding bikes of all time! I saw them in full-on action for the first time at the 1968 Brands Hatch meeting and I couldn't believe my ears!
@schosal12313 жыл бұрын
the sound of good old times. golden ages.
@gprimeofx13 жыл бұрын
OK, can someone please tell me why they aren't making bikes like these anymore? This has got to be the best 4-stroke motorcycle video on KZbin!
@burghill197910 жыл бұрын
went to goodwood and Honda came over with the 50 2 125 4 and 5 the 250 6 and 350 6 one year and started them up totally awesome!!!!!!
Nice collection of 1960's Honda Grand Prix machines being fired up! The 6 cyinder Hondas still sound the best racing motorcycle ever in my opinion! :-)
@blackbirdtwigg11 жыл бұрын
Simply.....................INCREDIBLE !!!!
@ralph540711 жыл бұрын
It's OK just hearing them being started up like this but the ultimate was to be up near the Bungalow on the Isle of Man TT circuit and hear howling up the road being used in anger. Somthing never to be forgotten...
@lxPhilxl13 жыл бұрын
Just the sound of these gets my adrenaline pumping, what must it be like to ride them?!! If you don't get your adrenalin stoked then I have bad news for you; you're dead. Great vid, thanks.
@T16MGJ10 жыл бұрын
Made the BIG mistake of standing two yards behind Hailwood's Six when it was in the paddock started up ready for the race back in the 1960s. The air and noise immediately got my rib cage and surrounding flesh painfully vibrating at different freqencies. I soon moved away for fear of being rendered sterile! Never before or since heard any racing machine make a sound like that be it on two or four wheels. Fabulous stuff gorn forever. You don't need rose tinted ear muffs to know that... Youngsters today don't know theyze born ... and you could do 100 mph on the North Circular and Cop Cars move over and wave you by... I kid you not ... ;)
@c0neyisland10 жыл бұрын
All I can say is...you lucky, lucky man! Just imagine though; 1966 and all the standard English bike racers turn up with their Nortons and BSAs thinking that the TT race was still in the bag for them. Then Halewood fires up one of his 6 cylinder machines - they must have thought "oh sh*t, it's game over for us!"
@tritop10 жыл бұрын
my father took me to Hockenheim, I was standing app. 60 meters away. That both shocked and fascinated me at the same time; I'll never forget that sound of hell (actually sound of heaven :))
@yetimtb10011 жыл бұрын
i got the honor of hearing the 250 at a bike show in the rds it is the best sound i have ever herd from any engine be it car or bike !!
@rgadave15 жыл бұрын
I was there when they raced these bikes in the 1960s against Yamaha twins and fours, Benellis, Aermacchis, MZs. and others. Music to the ears !.
@p2gee16 жыл бұрын
This may be the best video on You Tube. If you dont get a stiffy watching this, well you must be dead. FANTASTIC!! Long live the internal combustion engine!!
@jesselink88557 жыл бұрын
they sound amazing. my single cylinder Honda 125 doesn't have a note close to as epic.
@briancrabb141312 жыл бұрын
my god, what a sound, u can hear the tune in the engine, i am biased by the way, ive had honda,s for 30 years, lol, in my opinion u wont find a better bike, reliability, build quality, and no other manufacturer comes close to titles being won, mr soichiro would be proud if he was around today
@DRITCHIEONE13 жыл бұрын
dont want to sound like all other honda multi fans but thats awsome really love the sound of that 250 6 there isnt anything ellse like it ever. would love to see it myself atleast one of the survivours doing a lap or too!!!
@thebones14 жыл бұрын
@jigibao no man my biking days sadly came to and end in my twenties. I remember when the first busa was unleashed and nobody could believe anything that fast could be allowed on the road. Nowadays I like especially race bikes and historic bikes.
@oskarcity13 жыл бұрын
esto es una sinfonia para mis oidos, gracias por subirlo.
@colinstewart14322 жыл бұрын
That's a very tasty noise. Bravo
@lennyjarvis-rx3mw Жыл бұрын
Sounds like engine is saying. Burn me Burn me Burn Burn Burn 🔥 👍👏.how stunning 😍
@bigbadbob5813 жыл бұрын
I think what makes the whole Hailwood / Honda relationship crazy is that Mike won using clearly inferior handling Hondas! I have no idea what vintage of Honda this is, but it looks a lot newer than the first Honda 250 Mike won on (did I mention meaner?). Mike the Bike forever!
@Ryousukeeeree10 жыл бұрын
さすがの6気筒いい音するわw
@crozr1loony9 жыл бұрын
Fantastic sound track!!
@fasterspider13 жыл бұрын
The RC166 gave me an eargasm
@LooneyK413 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@thedirtymammal13 жыл бұрын
super badass! i want one, my neighbors don't though
@Dadalushe11 жыл бұрын
I assume the guy sitting on the bike is Nobby Clarke. When the 250 first arrived at a track, the numbers (which were colour coded by class) showed it as a 350 and it had 4 exhaust megas. When it went out to warm up, they changed the colour to show it as a 250, added the other 2 exhausts, and put the fear of christ up the entire Yamaha team!!!
@dairatekozou11 жыл бұрын
大変貴重な映像有難う御座います!!!
@barneyrubble703710 жыл бұрын
My laptop speakers are not up to this!
@Jono.10 жыл бұрын
Sound slowly faded out of left ear and I thought i was going deaf. Mean trick.
@yerpaljesus15 жыл бұрын
that sounds soo amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
@TerribleTimes15 жыл бұрын
man this is what gets my blood boiling, I luv it!!!
@oskershindler55665 жыл бұрын
い~音するね~👏👏
@barneyboscoe10 жыл бұрын
I can remember being at the Creg in '67 hearing Mike gunning the 6 down to Brandish ORGASMIC.
@alfrescrow8 жыл бұрын
damn i love the symphony
@cliclactube13 жыл бұрын
Awesome sound ! Honda rocks ! :o)
@mk3stargazer16 жыл бұрын
think my ears are bleeding now!!! great vid and great sounds!!!!
@claus-detlefbeck74648 жыл бұрын
....infernalisch schön!
@legranderaoul13 жыл бұрын
I wish it were true that these old fossils could be faster on a track than a modern 600/1000 supersport motorcycle but it just isn't. Time and technology moves on. However, I would not classify these bikes as 'shit'. Fantastic pieces of technology and the pinnacle of engineering in their time. In a way, I'm a little surprised that they still exist. Lots of times, old racers are pushed to the back of the garage and forgotten then sold for scrap.
@reijosuomalainen136510 жыл бұрын
wouuuu-wouuuu ! Fantastic of music
@Nordjyden900013 жыл бұрын
If the rider over-reved the enging most of the valves got intermingled, they were normally sprung valves, not desmo. The mechanics changed the engine in 10 minutes flat, I saw it.
@garystewart25128 жыл бұрын
Music to ur ears what a weapon
@redtom037 жыл бұрын
gary stewart ttt
@yuyacb252710 жыл бұрын
6気筒最高です!
@taffwales11 жыл бұрын
It wouldnt be under my tree for long,never mind Crimbo dinner,think Id miss new years eve as well!!!
@bakhirun14 жыл бұрын
Have you ever heard of a tripod? They're really nifty little items, and they avoid the kind of "broken-neck" video we got here.
@Dadalushe11 жыл бұрын
I think this may be Brands Hatch in the mid-90s when John Surtees made a video of the 60s GP bikes - Honda, Yamaha, MV, Gilera etc. However, 1998 (I think) there was a parade at the IoM, which included two Moto Guzzi V8s, one of which crashed! One was original, one was a replica, but I don't remember which one got bent.
@B3N1K313 жыл бұрын
This sound is better than some "speeding mosquitos" :P
@kaaaappa16 жыл бұрын
incredibile!!!!!
@JasonMaximHall16 жыл бұрын
First bike up is a four - you can hear it's a four if I have to explain why - you don't need to know. It also has four pipes as asimple visual check. Still sounds great though and thanks for posting.
@wetherby56716 жыл бұрын
Two strokes have expansion chambers, four strokes of this era have megaphones which can be clearly seen.
@faao300015 жыл бұрын
magic sound 250....
@BigBassTurd14 жыл бұрын
Damn that sounds bad ass, like an F1 car! Wonder what the redline is on these little screamers!?!? This would be my next choice after a cbx for an extreme cafe racer build.
@h1aa15 жыл бұрын
Fabulous.
@BlackLabel734515 жыл бұрын
start it like you run it!
@hondaxl250k011 жыл бұрын
no the ultimate would be waking up Christmas morning to find the 6 cyl under the tree!! lol
@Laxpowertoo14 жыл бұрын
@wingking077 Idle speed for a six is around 10,000 rpm with peak power around 18.000 rpm. They wont idle below that.
@ralph540711 жыл бұрын
It's a bit different in the English country side, people live here for the quiet life, mind you doing a track day at our local circuit, Oulton Park, 15 miles away, would be a blast.
@TerribleTimes16 жыл бұрын
Luv it!
@realfranky15 жыл бұрын
very nice video
@znuto12 жыл бұрын
I want one as well. but I think the startup is much more cool when you have 2 little japanese guys in white jumpsuits and ball caps push start you. Do they come with the bike?
@banner414114 жыл бұрын
fookin hell...i can see my dads eyes misting over as we speak
@thefakedoctorphil16 жыл бұрын
G'day Stephen, where did you take this vid mate... lucky you. And do you know who owns the 125/5 I'm sure there were a few. did you get to see the honda works 50 twin that inspired them to stick two and a half together? Cheers
@mckenzie12515 жыл бұрын
that sound still scares me to this day and I'm 24!!
@JIGGLEMYEGGO12 жыл бұрын
they are reved like that because the engine does not have the recipracating mass needed to over come friction and compression at an idle.not a race engine builder,but know some one who is and i had the same question.
@sparbolt6313 жыл бұрын
In response to Malalo's comment about idling, they DON'T, most racing machines don't have idle circuts in the carbs, especially these "vintage" racers. Gotta keep blipping them just to keep them running.
@johnnyrvf13 жыл бұрын
@leyburnhealeyman Not true, Honda asked George Beale to make a replica of the 6 as they did not have one in their museum in Tokyo. He made 6, each casting 200.000 sterling, the engines were built by GPX in Le Mans in France, I met the young engineer who pressed the rollerbearing cranks together, they wanted to go with modern shell bearings but could'nt make a one piece crank that would work reliably, he reckoned it was like balancing 13 pool balls on top of another!
@Zukatsr12514 жыл бұрын
I want that 125cc bike ! :O
@mellyfetbelly15 жыл бұрын
xcelent
@lowljoren12 жыл бұрын
@turtlemann14 Not revving the shit out of it, just warming up. This is very normal. 2 Strokes don't like idling for a long time.
@Weak198715 жыл бұрын
Awesome noice!!!
@DonnyMacG12 жыл бұрын
I'm sat here listening to these angry wee engines and I'm grinning like an idiot if that helps anyone
@NielsMF14 жыл бұрын
does the RD161 (four cylinder) has a special crankshaft ? it sounds really differend like ''normal'' 4 inlines of that time like the CB750 or a Suzuki GS750 etcetera... Or is it just the megaphone exhausts...
@GLOBALWARMINGINGING16 жыл бұрын
oh mann des ding is ja ma affengeil ich will auch sowas! holy shit damn thats fucking cool i want that bike maaaan it sounds evil like hell
@turtlemann1412 жыл бұрын
@lowljoren ? you do know that these are both four strokes right?
@4418CARLOU11 жыл бұрын
Where was this? I am sure I saw these bikes in the IOM about 1997/98 or thereabouts. There is a brilliant article in MCN (20/02/12) about the 250 six replicas built by the genius GEORGE BEALE.
@23vin85014 жыл бұрын
I guess they learned a lot from the guzzi V8 they bought from Italy in the late 50s
@rider161616 жыл бұрын
i just found this vid and i have some ?..do these bikes have any type of expanion chambers.and can they idle
@eamh200214 жыл бұрын
By the way, is this an inline 6, v6 or some kind of "star" motor, or a flat 6?
@ralph540711 жыл бұрын
I had not considered that but yes would be a nice prezzy.... Not sure if the neighbours would agree though. ;-)
@leyburnhealeyman13 жыл бұрын
@MrMAHALO178 these engines won't idle, they don't have proper flywheels, and that works wonders for the pick up and achieving high rpm.
@quartusbuys68313 жыл бұрын
HONDA. 4 stroke, many valves as possible (oval piston). Maximum RPM.= Horsepower.
@pieterklaaskrugmann14 жыл бұрын
yep it will
@50ccpower16 жыл бұрын
Where were these bikes filmed and does anyone know where and when another event like this is coming up or one simular with old honda race bikes? Any help much appreciated.
@dominikblechschmidt9378 жыл бұрын
wow,
@petewasere200013 жыл бұрын
@SirVladDracula no he is pulling it back to make it rev its the bike noise maken the mic on the video lagg out!!!
@tpvalley16 жыл бұрын
I just bit my own tongue off!!lol!
@JosephWuestemberghs10 жыл бұрын
Hi ça rajeuni !!!
@wingking07714 жыл бұрын
anyone know why they keep it at high revs and not at idle?
@thebones14 жыл бұрын
@jigibao lmao.........no in fact your brother and I would sit down together and have a beer and talk about our love of bikes (despite the fact that you or he owns a pig of a one). Perhaps also discuss that Italy has produced not only some of the best and most beautiful looking bikes but some of the greatest art, architecture and music and of course Ago and now Vali. Ciao bello.......lol
@governator4516 жыл бұрын
holy shite
@simonhamilton703212 жыл бұрын
aaaawwwwwwwww BRILL. Scream baby scream like you love it hahaha
@hondaxl250k011 жыл бұрын
mine would!! we all ride out here in bfe ohio.... lol
@wiggy80815 жыл бұрын
It's probably because the camshaft profile is so extreme, that low down running is not an option. Just look at an F1 car, and thats with modern technology.