Classic motorcycle races at Phillip Island Australia. Agostini visits the Phillip Island Classic with MV Agusta, 3cyl, 4cyl 500cc and 350cc 6cyl Agusta.. turn up the sound. Copyright Bob Ayton
All you can say about this video ( thank you the videographer), is just pure music 🎵. Oh happy days No disrespect to today’s bikes, but this was my era. Brands, Mallory and Silverstone 😢
Brings back memories of the 1976 Post TT meeting at Mallory Park. I was in the grandstand and directly below me was Phil Read on an MV 4 cylinder. OOOOOOH orgasmic
Credo che queste MV siano di proprietà di Agostini perché se non sbaglio quando il Conte Agusta ritirò la squadra dalle corse lui comprò in blocco il reparto corse p fece ancora una stagione senza grandi risultati se non la vittoria storica e indimenticabile al Nurburgring poi passò in Yamaha e vinse ancora alla faccia di quelli che dicevano che vinceva perché era la moto che lo faceva vincere .... grande immenso, Marquez non é degno neanche di allacciargli gli stivali
That MV could be heard over a grid of Yamaha two strokes , it’s the sound you not forget and the honda 6 music to the crowds ears and the smell of Castrol R mmmmm
@ 2:08 checking all of the pipes, to be sure each cylinder is firing! Just a dab of spit on the finger, applied to each one, will answer the question: Are they all running?
One of the worst moments for ThE history of our beautiful sport was in 1976, when MV AUGUSTA was forced to retire due to financial problems. I would like to think they would have found THE way to fight the 2 Strokes which were coming up in those years.....
G'day Bob. Did the MV's come out twice? I know they were here in 2003, as my CBX had dropped a valve and I parked it next to the tiny 350 / 6 to take a photo and Ago came top our pits later to talk to us. The owner spoke very little English, but told me he also had a CBX. He actually fell off the 360 / 6 around Southern loop. No damage. just went wide and ended on the grass. Our racing could have been better, but it was a very memorable weekend and Ago was an absolute gentleman. Regards, Roland.
Three times I believe. I watched Agostini race the 350 MV Augusta against Brian Hindle in 1973 at Oran Park. Hindle won on a Yamaha 350. The local Italian community, at my home Sydney suburb of Fairfield, went wild as he was like a rock and movie star. A day at the races I will remember for the rest of my life.
G'day Droceretik. I believe that the 350 / 6 was still born as the multi cylinder rules came in just after they built the bike. I am happy to be proved wrong, but Ago may have raced a 350 twin against Hindle?
@@rolandskate3504 There was a 350 twin in 1957, but it was never used, and a bored out 250 twin which was ridden only once by Gary Hocking in France in 1960. The 500 cc six was raced only once, and was not a success, and the 350 six was never raced.
I recently had some clown declaring that the Honda 750/4 was the 1st transverse 4 cylinder "superbike. Yeh right, spoke wheels, single disc pull to the left front brake, just for looks useless rear drum, flex n twist swingarm, indifferent suspension front & rear, bread box seat, sohc motor with rocker arms & tapett screws. SMH!
That "clown" was absolutely right. Have you ever ridden one? Spoke wheels were the norm then, and are in principle better than cast wheels - if you would know something about unsprung weight you would know that. That single disc was at that moment the best brake there was, the rear brake did its work satisfactorily and the only DOHC engine in a production bike then was the CB450 Honda, so a single overhead cam was quite good - all other bikes had push rods. Don't compare a for that time revolutionary bike with much later ones!. Your comment shows you know very little about bike technology from the past!
@@joepkortekaas8813. So how many 754s have you owned, let alone raced, I've had about 30 of them. I've also had 450twins, 400/4s, 500twins and even 1960s 175/250 twins. As for not knowing about unsprung or single discs pulling to the left when heeled over hard into a left hander I got a bit of experience there as well. The standard Honda 754 rear drum was ok until you started having to use it under consistent hard riding/ braking. That's when it lost "feel" & "faded". I also have had unit & pre-unit beezas, trumpies, a Laverda SF750, CB900 series 3, a factory water bottle 750, ( now my memory seems to recall twin discs on those but I could be wrong), Yamaha RDs, 750 seca, untold road trails & stupidly a 72harley sportster & a 2005 Honda VT 750. Both pieces of crap. The best of them all were the 1959 ex Isle of Man BSA 650 pre unit, the Laverda SF 750 twin & of course the bike I haven't mentioned till now, that would blow the 754s off the road for top speed, but the handling & braking sucked, was a Vincent series C Rapide with converted bush to bearings, upgraded oil pump & feed system and upgraded engine work. No mate, I do know what I am talking about. Edit: Damn I forgot the Kwaka 500 triples, 750 triples( drag format), a Paris/Dakar 650 with a trailer of fruity parts, & 1960s 125 Australian G.P. winner.
@@the66hobgoblin.45 Fine, fine, but you still shouldn't compare bikes of different eras. As far as the Honda 750 fours are concerned, I was one of the most successful tuners of racing motorcycles in the Netherlands, and my Honda fours pushed out 96 hp with my own design camshafts and 31 mm Kei-hins or 32 mm Dell'Ortos SS carbs. I have owned and raced Ducati singles, among which an original Gran Prix 125 cc, a Honda CB450 in the unlimited class, where it was faster than any British bike, only 14 times Dutch champion Hans Hutten on a factory Laverda 750 was faster, (I still own three CB450 based 500 cc classic racers), a Honda CR110, CR93, CR77 and an ex-Jim Redman RC163, which I sold to a German gentleman, a Jawa factory 350 four-stroke twin, sold to Virgil Elings in the USA, two AreMacchis 250 racers and a Parilla 175 cc. Furthermore I have of course owned BSAs, an Ariel, Jawas, a Velocette Venom Clubman, a Yamaha SR500, and probably a couple more I can't even remember. And oh, I'm a university graduated mechanical engineer, and still a technical editor for a motorcycle magazine.So, yeah, I also know what I'm talking about. You can Google me, or buy my book "Honda's Four-Stroke Race History 1954 ~ 1981".(I'm working on my book about the 50 cc racing history). Cheers.
@@joepkortekaas8813.So why do all modern superbikes run mag wheels if spoke wheels have less unsprung weight? By the way Joep can you tell me if a Honda754 ever beat the Triumph Trident known as "Slippery Sam". ( My old memory has 120+ races floating around) And as you know the Trident was simply a rebadged "Rocket Three". Do you know if any of the Bohmerland (1000s?) with the mag wheels have survived? And getting back to my original comment about "the clown". He claimed that ,754s were the 1st "TRANSVERSE " 4cyl "superbikes" & everyone knows that the M.V. Augusta is widely accepted as being that bike. As you are obviously highly qualified you most probably know of others. More than likely Italian . Benelli for example. One last viewpoint I will out is that the "Double Leader" on my BSA was in my opinion a better brake than the single Honda disc. What say you?
@@the66hobgoblin.45 You're quite right that no Honda four ever beat "Slippery Sam", but to my knowledge, no Honda four ever raced against "SS". However, there is no doubt in my mind, that under men like Percy Tait or Malcolm Uphill, Slippery Sam would come out the victor. But Daytona 1970 was convincingly won by the Honda four under Dick Mann, against the Doug Hele Triumph and BSA triple racers and Honda won convincingly the first race they were ever entered, the 1969 24 hours Bol d'Or in France under two 19 year old students, Michel Rougerie and Daniel Urdich. There were 3 Triumphs there, some BSAs, Rickmann Metisses and Dresdas, but numbers 2, 3, and 4 were Kawasakis, number 5 again a totally standard Honda 750. The first Triumph came in sixth. My own CR750 was raced unbeaten in Australia till the advent of the 750 two-strokes. As regards cast wheels verses spoked wheels: there are two very good reasons for that. First and foremost, Fashion! Don't forget, it was not the manufacturers of the bikes that introduced them, it was the accessories industry. The manufacturers followed, happy to do so, because a) it sold, and b) spoked wheels can only be spoked by hand, no machine or robot could do it, and with rising labor costs, mag wheels became an economic advantage. Retro bikes, by the way, often again have spoked wheels. It's funny that you mentioned the Böhmerland: in a recent article by another editor of my magazine about the Münch Mammut, he wrote that the Münch was the first bike with cast wheels, whereupon I immediately wrote, that the Böhmerland had them much earlier. I don't know whether a Böhmerland has survived. As far as I know, they were 598 cc with Liebisch engines. If you refer to the MV 600 cc four, that indescribably ugly bike, I absolutely don't agree with you. It was, as I said, ugly, had less power than the Honda (which was introduced one year later), had puny mechanically operated disc brakes, and, most condemning, it didn't sell! To be a sup[erbike it should be a success, and it sold probably less than one percent of the Honda fours. And don't mention the 500 cc Benellis - they were straight copies of the Honda fours, and a number of Honda parts fitted straight in the Benellis! You could well be right about the brake, at least, when it's not the earlier brake with the outer cable pushing one of the levers. The later one with the rod connector was much better. As a matter of fact, the Suzuki twin racer I prepared for a friend had, per his request, originally a Honda disc. He very quickly asked me to change it for a Ceriani 4ls drum brake. But don't forget: when Honda introduced their disc brake, it was better than any of the then English drums, they responded with 2ls drums, which were later quite good. Cheers.
@@joepkortekaas8813 the japanese factory, Honda First of all, copied MV and elaborate it. When MV was without cover there were at least for japanese photograph taking lots of pictures of the bike...that became the Honda four of Mike Hailwood. Before of MV 4 , similar in the engine was Gilera, alwais made in Italy...
@@nellozavattini2716 You have absolutely not the slightest clue what you are talking about! Among the absolute rubbish I've read over the years about Japanese racing motorcycles, this takes the cream! Maybe you'd better read my book "Honda's Four-Stroke Race History 1954 ~ 1981". You might learn a bit from it.
