A little bit like riding the old Pac these days [roll]
Nice piece of old footage around Bathurst, gets the juices flowing.
Lap of Bathurst on a Honda 1100 (1981) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSlro-47Ns#normal)
Dennis Neill Crash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfPQMIIvKgE#normal)
:'( :'(
awesome footage on that first clip. v sad on the 2nd one.
bikes don't do the Bathurst circuit anymore do they ?
like the leather pants - no knee sliders back then!
Not a bad bit of footage considering no video cameras small enough then ,would have had to be a film camera.
Not to sure on the exact demise on the races at Bathurst but many fatality's :'( very dangerous circuit. and the uncontrollable rabble camped at the top of the Mountain [evil]
Quote from: Rob s on October 03, 2010, 11:13:59 PM
Not a bad bit of footage considering no video cameras small enough then ,would have had to be a film camera.
Not to sure on the exact demise on the races at Bathurst but many fatality's :'( very dangerous circuit. and the uncontrollable rabble camped at the top of the Mountain [evil]
yeah, I was thinking ti was a bit TT-esque! tight, no run out, close walls. But even that footage through the twisties was really great.
Quote from: Rob s on October 03, 2010, 11:13:59 PM
Not to sure on the exact demise on the races at Bathurst
I went to "the last race" in the early '90's (probably '93 or '94) after which the cops shut the event down, then again at a special on-off Formula Extreme meet in 2000.
It needed a brave racer to enter events there...
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Quote from: Rob s on October 03, 2010, 11:13:59 PM
and the uncontrollable rabble camped at the top of the Mountain [evil]
HEY! I was one of them! :)
coming from Lithgow, we use to take a trailer load of coal up for the fire and camp around the womens dunny so's they had to walk through our camp to go to the loo! [evil]
went there for many years and saw some funny stuff! :)
my good friend used to race there... the last race was 94... its great to see footage of what he has been describing...
Great footage Rob! [thumbsup]