OMG was that thing tuned perfectly! When he blows by and climbs the hill..sheer symphony! If that does nothing for you.. call a doctor or a funeral director and let them know you’re a coming attraction!
I was lucky enough to be at the last race in the UK that the MV appeared at before sound rules got it. It was at Cadwell Park circa late 70's (sorry cant remember exact date). Phil Read was on the 500 x4. You could hear the MV and nothing else to be honest. It sounded like Satan. Unbelievable howling beast. Phil Read led for the first couple of laps but was overtaken by the 750 works Kawasaki ridden by Barry Ditchburn. Etched into my memory listening to that ethereal noise.. it was a fucking awesome sound :)
I was there at cadwell same time , all my weekends were there ,club meetings whatever was on , bill ivy , great riders , my mate rog marshall just learning his trade on 2 strokes
I remember being at Brands Hatch waiting for Ago to appear on the MV - we heard him before we saw him - the noise of that machine coming through the tunnel from the paddock to the circuit inner field was from another world - absolutely awesome.
I still remembering for MV Agusta riding Ago on it, in the long straight at Czechhoslovakias Brno MotoGp circuit in in the early 70' th , what a sound , just like the thunder , never forget it !
I remember watching these bikes racing at numerous tracks in the UK during the 60's, Gary Hocking versus Mike Hailwood. Those MV's sounded so refreshing after always hearing Manx Nortons with their drone ! The only other bikes to beat that sound were the Honda sixes.
I was at Assen in 1980 and Mike did several demo laps on the Honda 297/6. Just glorious. Why is it, that these sound police keep wrecking all of our motor sports. They've wrecked bike's sounds but listen to the dreadful boring sound of the current V6 turbo F1 cars. Anyone remember the F1 V10s. Best race engine sound of all time. Just my view, but I do love my MT10.
Watching and listening to Giacomo Agostini and Franco Benera on 2 3cylinder 500 s at the Spa Belgium circuit in 1975 was incredible and has left a lifetimes memory with Barry Sheene chasing them on his RG500
I was going to say that sounds like when i seen Ago race. And yip its the mighty MV. The engine note was like sn explosion compared to the japanese machines. All the British stuff was finished with by then. When I seen Ago in the pits for the first time you couldn't imagine him doing anytime else but race motorcycles. He looked the part.
Ago was at AMA Vintage Days on one a few years ago....he was supposed to do a parade lap. But it was Ago,so he did about seven laps, ann, well, not "parade" speed at all.....what a great sound. Good luck in the future with electric bikes, kids.
@@57dogsbody Hailwood on the Honda 250 6 cylinder. Especially when they came out of the paddock tunnel and passed the pits to enter the track. He had to keep blipping the throttle as it would not idle, as no flywheel. Then sitting on the old south bank (just full of bikes) as he came under the bridge onto clear ways and the sound was bouncing off the then grandstand. Memories Memories.
Me too, Mr Scoots!! Makes the hair on my neck stand up.. and I get wet eyes as I think back on all the guys I followed all over Britain and Europe in 1966-68...now passed away. Mike the Bike, Bill Ivy, John Hartle, Helmut Fath, Fritz Sheideger, . Those were very happy days of my youth...
my dad has all the TT races recorded on vinyl. I know its not the same as actually being there, but seeing as these vinyl recordings are so old, the sounds are fucking awesome. even now. to have been there to hear them in the flesh must have been a different experience altogether.
I saw Ago and Read on the "Bedeldijk" straight at the TT Assen circuit back in the 70's...standing 1,5 meters from the track , mv's passing with 280km/h.....never became quite normal again since then. Compared to these awesome mv's modern motogp bikes do sound like popcorn machines.
Simply awesome. Saw Ago and Reid ride these at a couple of meets at Silverstone in the early 70s. No two stroke comes remotely close top sounding as good as this.
Sweet. The shift blip, back when you had to do it to get a clean shift. I laugh when I hear the new Harley's blipin' on the shift like you had to in old days of straight cut gear, 4 speeds.
That was delicous !! Ilove the sound of 3-cylinder engines. I saw Giacomo Agostini winning the Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in 1976. I calculated the speed acc. to the tone difference between approching and leaving in the video. The speed was about 215 km/h, which is 133,6 mph. The engine speed acc. to the tone of a 3-Cylinder 4-Stroke Engine was about 11100.
I was standing at Hilbery (it used to be spelled with just one L) back in 1967 at the Senior TT when Agostini was riding the MV and Hailwood on that fiendishly powerful but terribly handling Honda-4. As he departed from Hilbery Hailwood's Honda literally skipped left and right, as if it was hinged in the middle. Mike's rear tyre was skipping left and right about two to three feet! It was astonishing to watch. The sound of those multis still stays with me.
and I was just up the road from you at Creg-Ny-Baa hotel on the same day, same race, same sound and watched Agostini coast past me with a broken chain on the MV. He was so close to me and I could have touched him. He was crying, really crying big tears. But what a race that was. Diamond Jubilee TT!
I was there in 1966 at Hillberry, and saw Ago on his MV3, and Hailwood...[On the Honda 6.] And again in 1967... Have NEVER forgotten those sounds!! It still gives me goose-bumps, 52 years later!! Best years of my life...
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Hailwood and Honda easily the best ... even the smaller cc Honda's 50cc 125cc sounded like mini versions and where glorious from the age of 5 I sat on the grass on glencrutchery road listening to them go by my father rode a cr110 and cr93 there
Seriously i didnt realise it had got thumbs down till you pointed it out. I didn't think it was bad for a phone video. But just goes to show there's some right miserable bastids about. Lol
