Awesome! That's my dad, Phil Petrick at 1:15 1:45 5:36 12:16 14:31. He was already 1962 AMA Nat'l champ on 45cu. in. when this was filmed. He rode Sparky Zegalia's HD from Easton. Bill Heil his mechanic is also seen. Thanks for posting this. It really made my day.

@bg147

6 жыл бұрын

He made it look easy.

@travisthechimp7857

4 жыл бұрын

Seeing a comment from someone that knew one of the riders really made my day.. thanks P Petrick!

@assfuck4433

3 жыл бұрын

I doubt it

@keithclark486

Жыл бұрын

@@assfuck4433 Says the idiot that shows somebody taking a crap.

There's some pretty special footage in that video. And some really amazing shots

Thanks for the blast from the past brings back memories of growing up at the clubhouse of Helderburg riders M/C Berne N.Y.

Crazy how they made it to the top. Springer front ends, low horsepower. Sprockets and and tuning baby.

Those Guys Were TRUE BADD ASSES!!!... Excellent Video!

Awesome footage!!!

Seeing all those hard-tail machines brings back memories Plus there are still a few of the 'old timers' left who could identify the guys on the hill, like the guy in club whites and that flat black cap working the rope at the 'Y' tree. I remember the spectators on the hill and those perched up in the trees. The vies of the parked cars [4.28] shows the old TT Scrambles track that, at that time, was Bethlehem MC who's club was the Quonset hut out along the road. BVMC had the hillclimb sanction but ran their TT scrambles at the clubhouse in Palmer. After Bethlehem disbanded we were able to purchase this property and ran a few Scrambles on this track. Scrambles were dying in the mid 60's so it was only a year or two before we re-graded the track hairpin flat to allow more auto parking. 0.10 the two guys looking at the ruts in the hill are, left, Burt DeWalt and right, Bob Dickey. 1.20 note the rider is wearing a jersey from Sparkeys HD, Easton, Pa and his helper is a club member who, I think, is still alive. 2.14, the crew cut guy standing on the left talking to the rider is Joe Werner and the man on the right facing the camera is Louis Corrier, brothers in law ans both national hillclimb champions. 3.50 MIGHT be my father's cousin, Clarence Suydam who ran class B [45 cu in] VRS the class A [74 cu in.] bikes. Both classes were running Nitro fuel. Around the time this was filmed the standing hill record was set at 6.2 seconds and the improving technology let to Louis Corrier promoting the addition of jumps and we got a cat loader to make the return pathways into roads and sources of the dirt pushed out to make the jumps. By 68 or 69 insurance forced the spectators off the hill. I still go back to work the same jump every year, it is the best seat in the place!

@travisthechimp7857

4 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic quality film had this been VHS it would probably have deteriorated by now, judging from some of the 1980's and 90's video recordings here on YT. I think I may have seen this hill climb from the road when I was a little kid being driven to race at Sleepy Hollow in Bethel Pa? If not this one it was another one. I think I remember seeing 'Piston Poppers MC' on the sign at that hill climb, but hard to say if my memory is correct plus I never dreamed I'd need to remember the name of it in 2020 hahaha! ...Thanks for the great video.

Awesome vid Just got home from freamansburg fall hill climb 2017. Missed about 20 years. Now only 1 hd & 2 Brit bikes. I remember my 1st time in 79 @ freamansburg all Harley's & Brit bikes back then & a couple stp scecisl 4 cylinder hondas. Miss good ol days 😎

Great footage & picture quality . Really enjoyed this...

That's a cool, exiting video! It takes me back to watching the Bushkill Valley Motorcycle Club's motocross races when I was a young boy in the mid 60's. My uncle lived next to the course. I'd stand at the edge of his yard and watch them come flying up the short hill above what is now the club headquarters. By the early 70's the track was abandoned, and we'd walk the course with his dog.

That funny narrator niches with that music was hilarious.

Wonderful stuff. Them were the days.

That's great good to hold onto those history and memories. Thanks for the share!

Esquisito !!!

Wonderful!

Man! that is some great stuff!!!....

how many of those young boys had to go to nam? hillclimb hamburger hill '67?

What was the motor size of these bikes and approximate horsepower, and by the way a great watch on KZread

@fyddl3cat

2 жыл бұрын

Amateur 45 cu in. Pro 74 cu in.

How awesome is that and the crowd looked dignified compared to the drunk bikers today. I wish had one of those old bikes if there are any left.

@camgnilpe9300

5 жыл бұрын

drunk bikers of today? im sure everybody at the hillclimb were sober!

You know the official money web site for the hill climb says it started in the 1930s but thats not correct , because by grandmother came to it in the 1920s on the "bicycle" Harleys from Bernardsville NJ which in those days was considered a long hall on those bikes

Didn't they install a couple of bumps across the track later to slow the bikes down? When I first went to Freemansburg in 71 or 72 I recall at least half of the bikes not making it to the top. A crowd of spectators would stand right at the top and have to flee into the woods at the last second if a bike did manage to make it. A friend of mine was loading film in his camera and not paying attention and was almost killed by a bike that went airborne at the top. A few months later Cycle magazine had an article about the event and mentioned "the idiot in the red shirt" LOL!

No sound 😢😢😢

a bike!