Sacramento Mile Main Event Vintage Twins

[@marilynkiene1842]

I was at the Sacramento Mile at the old fairgrounds in the 1960s. Harley 750 flat heads, Triumph and BSA 500 twin overheads and BSA 500 Single overheads.

[@donniebaker5984]

The Flathead versions where the k models the xr750 didn't come out until around 1970 and the person still had iron cylinders and then they come out with a twin carburetor version that they're still racing today and still winning races today

[@rader1175]

Was wondering if this Pete Hames, excuse me if I miss Spelled last name. What a view, that mi. don't seem so big at that speed. My favorite bike. Attended many in the midwest , 67- 76 then in Pa.late 90's- 2010. Thanks for a real flattrack video. Not high banked Sprint car track, & No mufflers !!!!!!

[@antkarinlang]

Wow. I used to dream this. Forget the people commenting on the quality of the video; I cranked up the sound and went along for the ride.

[@edquier40]

I got to ride my XS 750 Trackmaster @ the Sac Amateur Mile in 2019 vintage and over 60 classes, , way too much fun!

[@vdt9478]

Makes me miss my Bultaco Astro......Good times.....

[@marktarascio4766]

Yeah me too I had a Bulltaco 250 and a 360 Astro

[@jrobdickson8498]

I do love that XR sound-

[@TheRick999]

Very cool this connection that the world of two wheels can provide. 🙏🏿😍

[@ellwoodblooz]

Thanks for this. Closest I’ll get to riding the Sacramento mile. 😎

[@glennmuir5617]

Excellent view of the front tire.

[@alanheath7056]

Brilliant start more advanced than other riders how he passed with ease

[@thetriumphguys323]

I strained my neck trying to see anything but the front wheel lol. Great ride.

[@rader1175]

Me too, trying to look ahead. The way I rode.

[@Not_Sure-2020]

Excellent video! I haven't seen a good 11 minute front tire movie in a while!

[@gertpetersen3765]

Love you 👍🇩🇰

[@rebelrog2870]

I loved the first 6 minutes of the view just setting on a motorcycle. Then just when I didn't think it could get any better, a guy got off and started pushing his motorcycle! The excitement was overwhelming!! Just in case you missed it 4:50. It's even more dramatic when you slow down the speed, it looks like he's in slow motion.

[@markhoyt8643]

All I wanted to see was a Harley up front thank you the good old days

[@wmnorell]

Great video, Man!! Loved that you had the stones to blast past those wusses out for a Sunday drive!!!

[@thewatcher5271]

Video Starts At 6:25.

[@JohnSmith-de2mz]

HD 750, starts at the back and passes everyone, excellent

[@wolfeyes9357]

Either hd xr 750 or yamaha xs 650....the two were mortal enemies!!!!! Lol

[@KowboyUSA]

Saw and heard that H-D XR750 and knew it was about to get killer and it did. Sweet

[@donaldmartin4980]

I raced in California from 1974-1980….90mph in the turns about 135mph in the straights

[@danstump3686]

That front tire looked brand new. I could even see No. 32 on the front plate on the straightaways.

[@lewhanna6112]

Only thing that would run with the H-D in those days was the Yamaha tz750 that King Kenny Roberts said they didn't pay him enough to ride.

[@jimjettjr.2727]

The TZ 750 that Kenny Roberts rode wouldn't run with them boat anchors it would run through them just like the RS 750 Hondas that Graham and Shobert kicked their ass on every year. Them Harley's wouldn't pull a hat off of your head.

[@robr5786]

Then why did Triumph and BSA win the ama national points? Nixon,Romero,Mann?

[@glenpiro313]

Dam man watching this made my groin hurt like the old days. Great vid, excellent race on a well sorted XR, clearly not your first rodeo!

[@JohnTOutlander]

Great video, of the front tiree

[@dwightbernheimer331]

Hey, while we're still young!!! Guess they were at Walmart shopping for a Flagman. I've never seen a flat track unicycle before LMAO

[@chriscarson8218]

Now I know why you started in the back your blew away the competition 👍

[@timryerson6733]

that bike handles awesome great power really nice setup you guys have

[@jetpack5]

From what little I was able to see, that dude blew everyone off the track

[@stevematz7354]

I believe that Rider is #32 Shawn Baer who has had that National # 32 going back to 2006 up to 2020

[@DodgeBrosMotorsports]

@@stevematz7354 no it was Pete Hames riding the bike, he held national #32 for a while

[@rader1175]

@@DodgeBrosMotorsports Bart Markel lol

[@worldofjester118]

What a badass!!!!

[@TheBmco99]

Dam that number 32 is getting it 😂🎉

[@jamesnormandin7644]

Makin that Harley do work💯🤘

[@menacingjackal5990]

I knew when I saw that XR 750 on the back row it was over with !

[@trainsboats6270]

Great view of the track

[@dennisschell5543]

Nice view of the front wheel...

[@drive9997]

I watched this couple times good vid

[@TheBrassCaster]

nice view of the triple clamp.

[@mikyl-fo8rh]

Nice handlebar action

[@brentritchie6199]

Great vid shame about the camera looking at the ground

[@bgjb-r1499]

Great camera work.

[@N-Scale]

Nice video but wish the camera was not pointed at the ground. Thanks , Mike

[@aldopicchi6781]

Muy Linda la Rueda delantera

[@classicrestoration]

Nice video of your front tire🙃

[@fluffybilly]

Nice tyre.

[@jimmypea2207]

Sacto is THE Mile.

[@Denis-bo8ms]

Nice Yamaha XS650 tracker at 02:13

[@miguelcarter1949]

Harleys kick ass on all the big tracks triumphs hook it up on the small ones be

[@alanhodge8200]

that HD a rocketship

[@amelierenoncule]

Where you not feeling a tad 'odd',, mon ami, outclassing everyone...due you your mounts superior engine size and hp ?

[@ianjriquelme92]

Nice!

[@rebelrog2870]

Anyone know why he started last? I'm guessing he made some changes after qualifying? Or was this a just luck of the draw race and he drew the shortest straw? When you are that much faster than everyone else and start on the last row, somethings going on?

[@OtisENGINEuity]

how many old Triumphs were running there? might want to try using a chin mount and tilting the camera up or maybe putting it on your handlebars so you can actually see ahead of you on film

[@rcnelson]

Yep.

[@donaldolin4616]

Nice.

[@holmes1956O]

6 minutes of pit lane and 6 more watching a front wheel. How can that possibly be a good video

[@StreetHawk2020]

Need to tilt the GoPro up Bro.

[@markbrown1011]

yes tilt your go pro& twist the throttle

[@carlmisuraca2415]

Nice! That XR ran away from all of em!

[@josephmckinney7061]

Like seriously, who was riding this? Name of the roder?

[@paulhagerty2773]

5 minutes of throttle blipping and I am gone, C ya

[@jimsomers7182]

If we don't have by now, it's gotta be on the way, and that is a remotely controlled servo system to aim that camera.

[@donniebaker5984]

Won't be really cool if there's a way when you come out of turn two ... Point the camera into turn three that's all you have to do and it'll be really neat if it had a automatic inside on the camera after you look at three then lock it in on that particular level and the camera do the rest.... I seen as having so many times the writer must be setting his camera up when he's standing straight up and then when he's leaned over on the bike that's why you see the front tire all the time...

[@MichaelM-ec9rl]

Nice tire film.

[@jamesshavrnoch8665]

Yup funny,.... keep your head up.

[@sanfranciscobay]

I want an XR750 Harley Davidson Flat Tracker to drive on the streets and hills of the San Francisco Bay Area.

[@OtisENGINEuity]

but a 883 and build it up so it actually makes power. they sell kits to do the heads that both the exhaust ports come out of the front of the head and on the same side, and big cams and everything.. Street trackers are a big thing.

[@DonWestmorelandUSA]

Get an XSR900 , you'll be happier.

[@jonnylong7927]

That would be rad

[@raybassman7536]

Just ask Mert...he lives in the area.

[@suskaklapp6641]

Where did you get that front tyre.

[@johnmoore3930]

woulda been nice to see something more than the front tire

[@rcnelson]

Couldn't tell. Any Beezumphs there?

[@prasonecorner]

Nice

[@jrbonner5858]

jackie mitchell fast back in the day

[@johnb4183]

HEADSHAKE ?? GOOD SOUND

[@donniebaker5984]

Too bad your helmet cam was only focused two inches if front of your front tire

[@uguyssss]

Who is the rider ?

[@motoman7445]

Moral of the story, if you wanna do well in vintage twins get you an XR750.

[@declanargue4571]

How did yeah get on anyway

[@sanfranciscobay]

How would Flat Track Mile racing change if they were racing on asphalt instead of dirt?

[@oneofmany1087]

it would be road racing not dirt track -Flattrack

[@chucklaneChuckylane]

@@oneofmany1087 There was a series called "Mars" for Motorcycle asphalt racing series. It only went a couple of seasons. The Japanese had a asphalt oval flat track too, they might even still be doing it, but it was boring as hell with mostly 750 Honda's & the most twisted up pair of handlebars ever created. The Mars series wasn't bad, they were puttin' some lap times down, I'm not sure why they quit.

[@Zocorax]

The Japanese series is called "auto race" and is heavily regulated as they gamble on it

[@evanwalker9298]

They should name this video “ hurry up and wait only to stare at a front wheel”. Plus he never kicked it sideways in corners ! WTF?

[@smithjakecary2580]

Restrict that XR Harley had the triumph restricted when 750 over head valve legal then when Honda murdered Harley they cried to the ama again

[@badgumby9544]

Cool, but terrible camera angle.

[@attheflattrackraces4662]

Charley Roberts??

[@stevejackson8811]

Out horse-powered them all by a long shot...

[@donniebaker5984]

Those Harley engines make 120hp from just 750 cc and weigh in at just over 300 lbs and top out on the mile at 140 mph . .the only thing that will beat them today is the FTR750 Indian and they do it by laping the entire field of every brand in a 25 lap. Main.. I'm from terre Haute where we used to have the AMA Grand national half mile ... The one day I was asking a couple of guys who just got back from the Springfield mile and they said the Indians lapped the entire field two times in the 25 lap main.... So now they got a third class called the super twins and make all the Indians run in that class now.... I know it's over a year or so noticing there are some xg750 Harleys running in that super twin class have won a few events .. but there are no Factory teams anymore from Harley-Davidson they pulled out of every kind of race and there is for the first time in history as they've been racing since 1909 every year not anymore Covid 19 plus Harley haters is about putting Harley out of business there are millions of Harley haters now who are the worst enemies to all bikers as they're controlling the market of what sales and what don't and it's just like any other domino effect when you bankrupt one company the rest of them will fall and it's none of the business of the Harley haters to be hating on Harleys in public and writing them down and printing up lies after lies after lies like they do there's even a Canadian here on KZbin has his own show and it's all about hating Harleys that's it we start to show out with what Harley did wrong this time what they did wrong that time and another one who's just as bad down in Florida shade tree surgeon he was bad-mouthing the Pan american a year before it came out calling it the new dirt glide.... And Harley's never inhabit of laying down horsepower numbers and top speeds in their advertising but they claim without a doubt that the new 1250 CC Pan American makes 150 horsepower and has a top speed of over 135 mph not bad for a dirt bike... I know one thing for sure that the Honda Africa twin don't have a chance against that Harley cuz I just trade it off an African twin for that reason and bought a xr1200 2009 and it has on dirt roads just like his bike you're watching on the track and African twim won't do that without trying to crash go ride when I see

[@donniebaker5984]

And please pardon my stupid looking English content but I can't make this phone do anything else but f****** and that's what it prints after I correct it and won't let me correct the second or third time it's infested with artificial intelligence and refuses to do what I tell it to do

[@Heavywall70]

There is no motorcycle I want more than an xr750

[@craigshambaugh1918]

Is that Pat Maroney b

[@srtace29AK47]

The XR750 could still keep up with the Indians if they hadn't been forced out. I knew that sound the second it was fired up. Best sounding twin ever!

[@jman8355]

So glad this 5 yr. Old video was recommended. 6 min of nothing, then 6min of a front wheel.

[@radnarley]

Who is number 32?

[@jetpack5]

I dont know but he kicked everyones ass

[@edmora7662]

radnarley It’s Wade Boyd

[@chucklaneChuckylane]

@@edmora7662 No it's not Wade, he is #68, this is Pete Hames, National #32, he's got years of racing on the Camel Pro circuit.

[@chucklaneChuckylane]

Pete Hames, National #32 many years of experience with all the best on the Camel Pro Tour.

[@wb4h]

Hope his eyes were not looking at the front tire like the camera

[@Johnnywhamo]

Well that was a colossal waste of time. ….nice front tire...and dirt.

[@trollnu1356]

Fix the cam...all we see is dirt...

[@armandogonzales9304]

Aww....the camera angle is all bad😔

[@harrynelson5545]

V

[@dlocomx783]

do I spy paul herman

[@mattkerscher5750]

Need to point you camera up

[@0lddragracer426]

That limey bike hauls ass.

[@jonnylong7927]

That stupid Harley that kept revving was annoying

[@chucklaneChuckylane]

Then you wouldn't like the mile a few years back when it was really happening! Half the field were HD's. This was just a delayed start, that happens sometimes, they were giving someone a chance to get their bike running, professional racing for a national has stricter regulations on how long you have, usually two minutes max.

[@stevesmith5082]

Boring camera angle!

[@StansWorld]

camera view is awful

[@drtracer59]

Well, watching that was a waste of time.

[@doyouknowwhothehelli]

bad angel

[@dennisschell5543]

I've seen front wheels before....BORING!!!

[@19SWG23]

6 minutes of bullshit 🤣

[@williamdunt6371]

Most boring file race I have ever seen

[@glenna5003]

Re aim tour camera next time video sucks

[@armandogonzales9304]

Aww....the camera angle is all bad😔