AWESOME 250cc HONDA 6 at the Classic TT 2017! Steve Plater | 360 Degree On Board 

no idle jets very narrow power band .. a beast to ride , but when the beast was tamed Hailwood showed how fast it was , respect to him and Mr Honda

Just shows how good Hailwood, Redman and the like were to be able to ride these difficult bikes and win back In the day 👏🏼👏🏼

Just a note. The RC 166 / RC 167 series of 6cyl GP race bikes were a 22,000 rpm redline tempermental beast of a bike. They had no idle jets in the carbs so constant rev'ing was required when clutch in. High gearing meant slipping the clutch to get going. Any issues with the gravity fuel feed, dirt or heat vapourization, meant instant stall.

The 60s era of motorcycle racing is the era i am stuck in and love ....

Steve giving it smiles after miles!

this lets you know how great a rider Mike Hailwood was to race this bike to win

...when he fully let out the clutch. What a screamer of a bike. Awesome!

That is Dave Roper firing it up! Dave is the first American TT winner? What a sound!

Just look at the smile on this rider as he runs up the narrow rev band. Lucky devil!

Listening to THIS engine I'd start smiling too... Incredible sound!

Best Bike-Best Bike Video -PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers & Thanks.

Ask him in 50 years about the RC165 and look at his eyes. Thank you for the upload.

Amazing video. Awesome rider. Mega bike! 10/10!

Pure brilliance. Mad props to Team Obsolete and Mean Machines. Sucks it dropped #5 valve.

La carita de felicidad que tiene el piloto 🥰

Amazing! Lucky smiling boy!!

Seems its proper hard to ride that bike, fuels poor, geared to the moon and bet it doesn`t really have brakes either! Good job Mr Plater for jumping onboard.

I think camera is facing the right way for once.. You get to see the rider ..and how hard they work for a fast lap..class I like it...

Awsome sound! Awsome riding! Awsome video! I might also mention awsome grin on Steve platers face lol One thing leading to the another I guess

That smile thou

You had to keep the revs up there wasnt a flywheel that's why they cut out sharpish when clutch is disengaged

1 of the bestvideos I have seen mint

Sounds insane what an amazing bike

RIP headphone users. Great video.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a happier face unbelievably beautiful

Up and down the Rpm like a rocket...

Just brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a bit of a responsability an handful what with it cutting out, was it vapourizeing or simply running out of fuel due to float height,as Isle Of Man sustained high speed,perhaps more so than the circuits its run on.It seemed to Peter out after a good long blast then the down changers for slower sections,all credit to Mr Plater great stuff.

Santa gave him an early Christmas present. It must be scary riding an priceless, old, temperamental bike like that at speed but he was smiling the whole time.

Fantastic sound! Guess you have to lack some mechanical sympathy to ride a bike that old with little flywheel mass. Love the period outfit too,I wear a pudding basin lid,makes it feel much faster than a claustrophobic full face. 👍👍🏁

Mucho respect for plater. Those machines were real beasts! And by the way wearing one of those open face buckets on your head... man if a dog or a rabbit or anything ran out in front of you or if a tyre had gone down your face would have been eating asphalt...🙄 that was a ballsy move even though you weren't going 10/10ths.

A CHOIR OF ANGELS GOING TO WAR, THE KIN SOUND BEYOND BELIEF, ALWAYS THE BEST.

Sound amazing

From union mills to greeba must have been legendary to hear from the outside

Would have been nice to see some shots of the bike

Thank you 🙏

F1 V12 bike glorius sound,sound my god 😍😍😍😍.

OMG! That sweet curtain-ripping scream of the greatest piece of technology of the mid-60's.😁 My Gawd that thing was fast for a 250cc bike!!! I'd be grinning my mf ass off too, riding that piece of history.🤣 They had no idle jets, so it was a full-time job to keep the little bastards running, never mind, up in the 12,000+ rpm range where they actually *started* making good power. Are you sure this isn't an RC 166? The RC 174 was a *little* more forgiving, but not much. The 250's actually cranked out around 55 hp.@17,000 and the 297cc. RC 174 was around 67 hp. They had 3 coils firing 6 cylinders, and a magneto and 3 sets of points behind the cylinder barrels up on top the engine case. Still wondering how they kept the point 'float' down to a point where they could rev that high. Can you imagine how much more power these would have produced with a good hot electronic ignition setup?! What an amazing piece of engineering, and I *REALLY* appreciate the 360 degree camera view to look around while Steve was piloting this little monster!! Fun ride!😍👍👍🚴🏿‍♂️

David Roper at start up 🇺🇲 👍👍

Sounded like she was misfiring a bit Quarter way through. Love this bike

Just wow!

Credit to TO for managing to keep this thing going at all after all these years with no spare parts to fall back on. Very trusting of them to let anyone else ride it; especially round the IOM. Before the FIM banned these multi's, Honda were already developing a V8 250. Imagine that? They were already running a 125-5....so a V10 would have been possible.

fantastic

Sound😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍amazing!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

steve what a famies bike.

Guessing high gearing and super high lift cams mean no tick over below 4K and a lot of clutch slippage on the slower turns....

Why does he have to keep jerking the throttle like that? Is it going to stall if he doesn't M

How to recognise motorcyclist -optimist? Easy -He has flies on his teeth! 8-))

What gear was it stuck in?

what a grin

Really High Geared.... Need to slip the clutch allot just to get going.

that gearing seemed really high struggling to get off the line in first

How do you breath without anything over your mouth and nose? Those men were superheroes as is Steve

i want this bike 😍😍

Did the engine stalled??

steve ya chubby chops blowing in the wind lol how meany bees and birds did you eat on the way round

Its a shame it was spoilt by the split video screen.

The moment you realised that the motor wasn't running properly 🤮, is when you should have pulled in and stopped it. To carry on with it was madness 🤯

This is one revvy engine O.o He just touches the gas and it flies up to 18k in a heartbeat

Well, at least he kept it running.....

Engine stall 4th times

He didn't really crank it. Understandable - that is not a bike you would want to damage

RIP my ears

Crazy bastard 😂

This is what it feels like to be a bee.

Turn the camera around .... f.....

Nice sound,awful filming...why split screen.?

Quite literally a balls out or nothing machine

Helmet danger

This is a bit deceiving as the rider is not at full race pace. Therefore, in the slow corners the gearing is too high. Then again, not a easy machine to keep on the boil.

Cara muito fraco

this bike has an issue and he's nursing it very hard. probably the 1st is dead and he has to spin the clutch in 2nd gear to launch the thing. no parts to repair such bikes. so he can't abuse it. he's going very slow. and it doesn't run to its real potentiel here.

I'm not a fan of the sound.. much prefer a "thumping 4-stroke twin".. that said.. and as they say, "I was there" when it originally took place :) Well done Steve Plater... you lucky, lucky, lucky "person".. oh and what a great emo-whatever your beaming smile would make

360 ? 180 yes

somebody give this man a helmet

My wristwatch has more flywheel.

Eat some flys

Das waren Helden, die konnten noch ohne elektronischen Digital- Blödsinn Motorrsd fahren. Schade.

My mums pudding basin would do better job than that lid..... Forget it colander air cooled can think quicker

Painfull 😊

))))))))

If ya fell off bye bye face