Gregory Parrott - Clearly, it wasn't the bike...it was the rider who was kicking butt! So cool to see an awesome old machine like this being wrung out by a skilled rider.
@@deaterk Well, the bike can't be that slow, otherwise he couldn't have that much speed on the straights but i agree, this shiftting mechanisme must really require some skill XD.
Mandernach Luca - Non... That IS a 'fast as balls' old bike. No argument there mon frere. But our intrepid rider has more than ' a little skill'. That should be obvious to any viewer.
Cool to see the beemer raced. Rigid rear, hardly any front suspension, handshifter and sometimes gripping brakes and still fly past manx nortons and ajs racers. Gotta love it and the big balls of Corser ofcourse.
That's was truely awesome, that definitely took skill and balls to be operating that thing at those speeds. I liked when the announcer said not to fight the bike. That was just beautiful to watch
Rene van der Kraats I used to own an 86 VFR750... I was second owner, first owner had tricked it out for racing then added signals, etc. back to it to use as his road bike after he crashed it and damaged the frame in a way they wouldn’t let it on the track (a dent in the frame that didn’t bend the frame). I had it up to 140 once..... made the conscious decision to never go over 100 again..... I can safely say he corners faster than I did on that bike 99.99% of the time..... was about to get a new bike when COVID19 interrupted my cash flow.....
@@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ VFR's are splendid bikes. They're so versatile, you can do anything confidently with them. Love that V-4 drone also :) I sold my '99 Aprilia RSV1000 which I owned from new for 20 years (Rotax engineered V-2, solid bike!), I've turned the pace down a bit since then, and ride a R-Nine-T now.
Bloody brilliant. What a sound. The engine in my gs1150 is basically the same motor, mmm i wonder if anyone has supercharged a modern beemer motor, must be possible now if they did it 80 years ago. Troy corser, legend.
I always been somewhat of a corser fan but this is corser raw! I guess when your the real deal it doesn't matter what is under you, you work with what you got and push to the front!
The highlight of the Goodwood Revival. This classic motorcycle racing has the most exciting racing there. They should branch out and make a prewar class, up to 1955 and up to 1965 race.
Peter Griffin if they made a pre war only class, many racing bikes of that era would make the effort to be there. You would be surprised how many Velocette KTTs, Norton Internationals, Moto Guzzis and BMWs are out on the classic racing circuit. Imagine seeing an entire race of girder forked machines like the BMW Troy Corser won on.
Which rock do you people hide under not to not actually have any footage from the Historic Winton event at Benalla, and yet still try to persuade yourselves you know motorcycling???
I don't know what it is about the drone of those old engines but this excites me more than watching modern motorcycle racing (with the possible exception of Isle of mann tt)
He is merely overpowering them in the straight aways because his bike has more horsepower. He is cornering slowly and not really doing anything special other than having more horsepower.
In the German wiki ("BMW 500 Kompressor"), in the text it's rated at 60 hp, but in the scheme on the right it's rated at 108. Clearly a typo that should be fixed.
Man this guy's a pilot!...tires were only on the pavement half the time! So awesome to see these machines doing what they were meant to do instead of sitting in some collector's air-conditioned warehouse...
Well that,s fine then. All I was pointing out to the poster was that the TV commentator said "82", and I still think he did. I don't personally know how old it is, but I think it's all rather rather wonderful to see...
wwwhhhaatattttt that's why i love those bikes .. why all the people i know keeps telling me "now i've got a 190 rear tire or i will use the builder prescription to put on my bike a 180 rear tirte..." whaat??? real riders do not need such a large tires ... ahahahahahahah absolutely loved it ..
I said that because many guys i know wants to swap 160mm for 180mm rear tire on CBR 600 with 90cv or 150mm for 170mm rear tire on Harley 1600 with 75cv ,, or 189mm for 190mm rear tire in Ducati with about 100cv ... that's not the point of having 10mm or 20mm more on you the rear tire.. but when you will be able to put on stress your standard rear tire without changing it .. it will means that you've reached the limit of your bike .. and i doubt any of them will be capable of it .. including myself .. :-)
1990, you are dead right : it's useable power that counts. Torque is much more important : when you snap the throttle open and there's nothing there because you're 5k from where the power is.
What do you mean, no suspension except the air in his tires? Seen that front suspension with leaf springs? In 1936, BMWs had telescopic front forks and foot gear change.
I believe NASCAR should take notice and do the same thing get back to car that you could beat and bang on all day and go to your local dealership and buy on Monday.
Extremely stiff or non-existent suspension will lessen your grip since the tyre keeps bouncing and has trouble staying on the road since it cannot travel down to grip normally, even more so if the road is not decently even at all points. Plus, this makes it so that your grip levels keep spiking thus if you push too hard you'll lose control unexpectedly.
This is definitely NOT a 1939 BMW - In 1939 the supercharged BMW had telescopic front forks, plunger rear springing, the compressor on the front, foot gear change, and Schorsch Meier won the TT of Man on it!
A supercharged bike shouldn't be racing naturally aspirated machines, but this clip is a hoot anyway. Those tiny drum brakes and skinny tires on all of those bikes--must have been a thrill to ride.
Holy Shit, Corser and bike are both awesome. To blow away manx nortons like that, Love it. In fact I,d rather watch racing like this race than Moto GP!
Sometimes people find a machine they just gel with. Other people may bag it, they cant handle it, but I'm.sure everybody has at least one hooptie they can really get to grips with. Troy corser on that bmw is proof of this. Great bike in it's time, poor bike now, great rider in his day and still a great. Hats off
Troys an Aussie legend. Can ride the arse out of anything and this race shows that in spades. What a ride, you don’t win two world Superbike titles being a goose.
