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Title: Freddie Spencer in his heyday
Post by: guest7 on September 06, 2007, 11:27:36 PM
See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj0UjUo5Jsw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj0UjUo5Jsw)
Title: Re: Freddie Spencer in his heyday
Post by: Steve Lake on September 07, 2007, 05:54:32 AM
impressive....no marshals, no medics, no tyre warmers, probably cold tyres....he certainly earned the nickname 'fast freddie'

as an aside, the car was a datsun 280z turbo (or might have been the 3 ltr version)(became nissan over here at about that time) and i had one for a year, and it WENT....i know i never managed to use all its potential, even on a track day

wonder who was driving it, and who was riding the other bike
Title: Re: Freddie Spencer in his heyday
Post by: guest27 on September 07, 2007, 01:02:24 PM
Well there we go - a "MotoGP" bike without all the aids - so what is this wheelies all over the place, going in to corners off the racing line to pass - oh for the days of screaming 2-strokes

R
Title: Re: Freddie Spencer in his heyday
Post by: andy230 on September 07, 2007, 03:27:14 PM
See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj0UjUo5Jsw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj0UjUo5Jsw)


Wow!!

That is just fabulous!

"Its coming up to 30 seconds now, a Freddie's getting ready to put on his gloves"....

Superb!

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Title: Re: Freddie Spencer in his heyday
Post by: guest24 on September 07, 2007, 09:36:53 PM
Blinkin' takes me 30 seconds to put my gloves on so I would have had no chance!!   :D
Title: Re: Freddie Spencer in his heyday
Post by: beeman on September 07, 2007, 10:11:33 PM
Just look at the tyre walls on the bends and small run off areas if it goes wrong. It makes you realise how much safer todays tracks are. Still In my day you were lucky if your jeans were real levis and the derri boots were really waterproof.  sigh don't think they were really the good old days after all!
Title: Re: Freddie Spencer in his heyday
Post by: OMEGAMAN on September 08, 2007, 12:06:04 AM
Just look at the tyre walls on the bends and small run off areas if it goes wrong. It makes you realise how much safer todays tracks are. Still In my day you were lucky if your jeans were real levis and the derri boots were really waterproof.  sigh don't think they were really the good old days after all!
They were only the good old days, if you survived them!