All these people have one thing in common : Passion for motorcycle . Money is just bonus ...

Thank you for documenting this great history

What a thoroughly enjoyable trio of documentaries (Watch all three !) Perfectly presented Very tasteful indeed Thank you

Fantastic video, and very inspiring, so much so jm going to clear my shed and start working on my motorcycles that have sat idle for years due to illness and misfortune, but with what time i have left, i am going to dedicate my time to fixing the bikes while educating myself and my beautiful loving grandson. Thank you very much. Cheers and good luck to you.

This was amazing to watch. Absolutely loved it! I have been riding for 61 years, and I cannot imagine my life had I not swung my leg over that first motorcycle!

What an inspiration this video is !!!!!!!!

This may not be mentioned but there was one pass through the 1/4 mile and the throttle stuck wide open so he got off and crossed the finish line sliding on his back. Potter was a wild man. That happened at the YellowBelly drag strip.

Wow! Incredible!

Perfect job !

Imagine being so well loved and respected in your profession that your company lets you use their tools to knowingly build a better bike than they ever could. Thats a true dream right there.

Keep up the good work 👍

This guy is more crazy then Evel Knievel wow crazy go twice the throttle on over 500 horsepower yeah this guy is the man

Great work putting all this together.

🙏 thank you for taking the time. I really enjoyed it and simultaneously what did a second time while working on my own motorcycle. God bless exclamation point

Awesome video!!! Full of very important information!!! A work of art by real craftsman!!!

Where is Allan millyard???

Wally pushkey in New Zealand built and raced a very similar machine - I think the mid 70s I remember as a kid Being Stunned and awestruck after seeing it in the hot Rod magazine. some of the pictures here all the very similar to the wally pushkey one: not sure who built which first?

E j was a great engineer such passion for motorbikes and speed

Great video, thanks! I understood everything, and learned a lot...greetings from Oz!

@wierdbike

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Greetings from Ukraine!

Absolutely brilliant, well done, thoroughly enjoyed this interesting and compelling doco. Thank you.

Damn it! I’m caught, another video I have to watch. And I have stuff I need to do.

@wierdbike

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, it’s always like that😅

Incredibly well done documentary, many kudos!

@wierdbike

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! For the years…😊

@TheHarryMann

Ай бұрын

Apart from the ridiculous pronunciations and abbreviations. Millimetres are millimetres not mms 🤔 kilograms are not K G s 🫣 Robotic dialogue Why not just talk normally 100 K A.U.D 🤭 No, 100 Australian or Oz dollars 🙄

Absolutly great! thanks from Brasil!

Thank you for creating this movie . Very informative.

That's interesting I have installed a lawn mower bicycle with a homemade frame my dad made for me with the drawings. I made extensions for the forks to make it look like a chopper motorcycle.

👍😎👍 Nice video..

I really enjoyed your video and didn't find your commentary a problem at all. There are many engineering geniuses out there doing their own thing with different amounts of skills and money. Some here seem to make it a competition with one being better than another. This video really praises each of them and shows that individuals can, in their own way create new and innovative designs often with limited resources. each one is not better but is different to the others, finding solutions to problems which most of us would have found and then abandoned the project. Please continue to make these videos to highlight these, mostly forgotten, engineers to a new audience.

Like a engine stand on wheels, with steering and a seat that when a piece of wood lays across, it doubles as a handy shelf

Those adjustable characteristics were also in the Vincent BlackShadow.

great video mate, the translations really good you can only tell when it says he instead of it about objects i think its amazing that we can all communicate across different languages now.

Thanks bro for this, I loved the commentary in the video. It was very enlightening. Continue with the work.

Great work on this compilation video!

American ingenuity and a big pair.

Thanks 4 ur work

Well done! Fabulously put together and executed exquisitely!

@fredrick965

Ай бұрын

I thought so, too. But there is an explanation at the end of the video.

Yup. Doctors of philosophy building motorcycles. Sign me up!✌❤

Hello Vlad, my grand father was also from the Ukraine !!! I very much enjoyed this documentary, being a lover of motorcycles, broken bones and rain it was very interesting indeed ! Now... I wanted to ask a question and send you a direct message but I don't know how to lol... Would it be possible for me to help you ? I would like to re-narrate this video for you. There are things that are not quite right, simple things like Dino / Dyno. I believe what you have created deserves to be the best it can, it would also stop the negativity and racist remarks.. Being a Welshman, I can't say if it would be any better but im happy to try and see what you think. My work would be voluntary, I want nothing in return. Please tell me if you would indeed like me to try. It would be a pleasure for me to help. Take care, Meshach

Santa pod is in the US? Who knew.

@flathead1271

Ай бұрын

No! Santa Pod is in England

@morganplatt6762

28 күн бұрын

@@flathead1271 Yes, I know.

well done

Love these video's ❤!

Had to sub. This is the kind of stuff that hits the industry and makes the big guys quite nervous. Great work. If all the Nay Bobs were really into the sport they would shut up and listen. Heck ya might learn something. F.T.W.

Roll on Alan Millyard

Mad, great and mad!😂

Still got my XV750 Virago and it's running well even after 87,000 km. My daily ride however is a BMW RnineT Pure. Best ride ever!.

If you love bikes,this film is a must…

Freaking genius love to go fast and play around with fast toys.

excellent

OK. So how did he cool that big V8 motorcycle? I saw no radiator. Anybody know?

@zebdeming

Ай бұрын

No radiator, ran it on alcohol and only for the 1/4 mile, not a clutch either, just direct drive from the crank to the wheel, if you look the rear wheel is up on stands, he ran the wheel up to 150 mph and then it rolled off the stands. In his book he said if the front wheel came up, he just gave it more throttle and the rear wheel lost more traction

@whatyoumakeofit6635

Ай бұрын

​@@zebdemingthat had to be a interesting ride on the first try.

This cannot be a real person narrating this?

@curt149k

2 ай бұрын

Ya, it’s not right.

@AjarnSpencer

2 ай бұрын

90% of KZread videos are not real people narrating them. I know how to do it but I prefer my own voice plus it’s faster and you don’t have to pay a monthly subscription to sound like some kind of computer that… Doesn’t know when… To say all things in one sentence… And…… Then……and say things like the soup area instead of superior. However, this is a nation person trying to speak with a posh English accent, not an AI generated voice.

@malcolmwhite6588

2 ай бұрын

Why… Do… You… think… That?😂

Fascinating, but the narration is almost unendurable. AI?

Ian not yen. 😅 Motorbike guy that is. I really enjoyed this video

No worries bro u make great videos. I speak only English. I mess up all the time. Don’t sweat it bro. Just keep making those fire videos

Great documentary man.

@wierdbike

Ай бұрын

Thanks man

am I trippin or is it not "ASG" dude keeps saying "AGS" 1:08:15 exactly so go before that he says it a couple more times. none the less beautiful video. RIP to the greats before all of our time

I'm 80 and was in the bike and car drag scenes at that time. It is absolutely true that he put the first Chevy V8 in a hard tail Harley frame. He was a mad man. Haha

There are so many stories of the earliest until todays privateer motorcycling. Maybe there will be follow on documentaries from WB? Anyway this has been interesting and amazing. Silverstone is like the superstition mountain of motorsport. There have been many incredible deaths on that blasted circuit. Not detracting from it's spectacular venue however it is very sad that Kim fell foul of Coopers bad temper and intolerance at the course where the outcome should have been very different.. if you please? Yes it's been a terrible recollection of some young blokes who popped the cap wit their enthusiasm. Most of the British manufacturers of M/c's after the war have a spirit of conquest and greatness attached to the business success. The riders may die but the idea lived on.

Hilarious!

Very Nice 👏👏👏👏👏🏍️

There weren't, tires capable of those speeds yet.

At 11:18 here is something you did not see in GP racing even back then . That is counter balancing a GP bike in a turn . Most of the time if not all the time the rider will lean with the bike in the turn . In doing so a rider can make the bike faster in the turn so to believe of the time . Counter balancing a bike cost a rider about .12 of a secend in the turn . But in a hairpin turn it is best to counter balance and the time can increase causing a tighter turn . It is also safer and resulting in full control of the bike .

This highlights for me how large motorcycle manufacturers get bogged down by what everyone else is doing

No Erik Buell?

SUPER DUPER KENO

It's Ian Drysdale, not Jan Drisdale. It shouldn't be difficult when you've got his name on the screen..

history edit

I was a bit confused there, because of Google adverts. The first three minutes was all some football game. I nearly pressed the back button. I was thinking where’s the bikes in this?

Amature is right. They were called exhibitionist. And they made quite a good living in the early to mid 60s

Vincent Black Lightning 1948, 240 Kph.

49,31 Grand Prix of the Netherlands 1972 . This is wrong information, the picture is not from the Netherlands, but from Monza on May 20, 1973, the situation where Jarno Saarinen and Renzo Pasolini died.

Robot Voice.. no thank you .

@wierdbike

2 ай бұрын

oh no

DAN GURNEYS BIKE LOOKS KINDA LIKE THE ADULT SIZE HONDA RUCKUS

What laungage is this

I go to Races to see a Race not a Crash,it's called Crashes.

he who laughs last, didn't get it.

Anybody tryed to rev your car 5 ,500 and dump the clutch, something going..LOL

Kerry is the dad not the mum 😅

Why not a v6? Smaller package

@lasskinn474

Ай бұрын

for the v8 one? lack of suitable v6's probably with displacement and which would have had go-fast parts on the shelf.. like that one was just did with what he had and then it was already done so..

Why oh way was he called Potter or is that P PP PPP PPP PP P POTTER

Tupac outlaw till we die

Is this AI?

Tupac outlaw

So his name was Elon? ......coincidence?

Guess they forgot the GSXR1000 was around in 1986??

@truthteller99999

Ай бұрын

You mean the GSX-R1100 The GSX-R1000 was from 2001

@got2kittys

Ай бұрын

But, it wasn't homemade.

😂🤣😂

see what academics bring?

HE DIED BECAUSE A CHEAP S. O. B. WOULD NOT O/K A FEW BALES OF HAY ! / (W T F )

AGS? ASG!

You said, four-wheel drive motorcycle..😅😂😅😢😂😅

@chrisridethatbloodything2044

2 ай бұрын

and later "steering WHEEL" :-))

Well i got a bike - why do i watch videos like that ???? Sometimes i think i should get a horse - beeing petrolhead leads to crazy things....

What with the horrible music?

I'm almost 99% POSITIVE that the narration for this video is either text to speech generated, or written completely by AI.

This Bullshit AI thing is not speaking clearly. Im hearing an Eastern Euro, Indian & a sissy english all mixed together ~ WTF ~

Hi Vlad, your English is better than some people born speaking english😂. Thank you for your weird bikes page mate. Power to the Ukrainian people!

BORING , BORING BORING , BORING

ej was throwing the bike side to side.

@ryurc3033

2 ай бұрын

Totally intentional to put on a show. The dude is a nutball. The article they wrote about him in hot rod magazine 25 years ago was my introduction. The story talks about how much the tire would stretch off the line, sometimes the thing would go flat because the tire would stretch right off the bead of the wheel. I can't even imagine climbing on something like that. If it blows up, your eating pistons

@69NOMAN69

2 ай бұрын

a true mad man @@ryurc3033

Can anyone confirm that this channel uses AI voiceover or not or is entirely AI generated? xD

@wierdbike

2 ай бұрын

Entierly, are you serious?😂