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SV Andy
12-18-2009, 08:47 AM
Excelent here's the link.

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/videos/2009/December/dec1809-video-kenny-roberts-and-tz750-reunited/
Rchop
12-18-2009, 09:05 AM
Great video Andy :023: I'm gonna have to share that one! Thanks.
Deans BMW
12-18-2009, 10:55 AM
Man oh man, that would have been a sight to see.
Rchop
12-18-2009, 11:09 AM
Dean, did you ever see him race at the San Jose Mile? That was my favorite race when I lived there.
Deans BMW
12-18-2009, 06:02 PM
I think I went to the SJ Mile only once, however the proximity of the SJ Mile was the reason I changed the name of the newly purchased BMW Motorcycle Center to San Jose BMW.
vintagemxr
12-19-2009, 01:04 AM
Roberts took a crack at the TZ750 mile bike 11 years ago at Del Mar. There was a second TZ750 out with him that ran better. Can't remember for sure but I think Jay Springsteen was the rider of the second bike. I was sitting near the north end of the grandstands and wishing for about a 2000mm lens for my point n shoot camera.

the other Doug

http://www.corgifan.com/forum/KRobertsTZ750DelMar1998sm.jpg
Rchop
12-19-2009, 09:42 AM
I used to really like the Del Mar mile. When they replaced it with a parking lot/dirt moto race, I stopped going:104:
DarthRider
12-19-2009, 10:21 AM
I didn't see Kenny race "The Thing" but I did see him in action on a mile horsey track near Chicago...spectacular!

There was a delay in the race while the racers were on the track with nothing to do, so about 30 of the best motorcycle racers in the world did an impromptu show of outrageous wheelies and long, lurid, feet-up slides of the type they would not do in competition 'cause they were not fast, just fun.

"Little John" Hately No. 98, rode a wheelie on his Triumph Trackmaster all the way around the mile track. That would be no big deal now when every squid on a sportbike can wheelie to New York & back, but it was a helluva show then!

I saw Kenny many other times at Houston, Chicago & Oklahoma City at short-track, TT and half-miles, and he was the Rossi of the flat track world...

A TV interviewer in Houston once asked Kenny's team-mate Don Castro why Kenny won so much. Castro said, "It's simple, he ain't afraid to lean that mother over!"

Houston Astrodome short track, ~1971.
http://mrcycle1.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/MISC/90691197-L/681489482_JQ9bY-O-1.jpg