Kenny Robert's TZ750 2009

From 3:20 on but watch it all, fantastic noise

Seen some of that footage before but that is my all time favourite bike, with my childhood hero riding it.
I used to have a t shirt printed to look like Roberts leathers and a King Kenny Yamaha yellow black and white Speedblock cap as a kid.

And that noise brings the hairs on the back of my neck up

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anything like this one?

Nope, if it had lumps in the front like that one I would have just stayed in my bedroom all the time and played with them

No, it really was meant to look like his leathers from a few years later (about 1980 when the Transatlantic Trophies were on) and had sponsors patches printed on it with printed on stitching round them.

I remember it said Dainese on a sloping line down the back and fairly sure there was a printed on "Patch" that said Champion (as in sparkplugs).
Bit like this...


Somewhere at my mums house there's a picture of Kenny Roberts giving one of my older sisters a birthday kiss.

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Yep, i remember making the Tamiya model.

Front wheel's tucking under though!

Great video, thanks for posting. I remember stories of Kenny when he first came to Europe to race. One of his first meetings was in the wet & "experts" said he stood no chance against the locals. No one told him that & he just slid the race bike sideways on his foot like in the clip all the way to the win.

Also IIRC it wasn't just the AMA (& Harley) that wanted the oval bike banned. Kenny was very active in the whole business.

Those TZs still crash well.

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James May:
I’d like to declare the Honda Cub to be the greatest machine of all time;
Nay, the single most influential product of humankind’s creativity.

Black Ice?

I believe Stavros did indeed want some ice on his broken collarbone afterwards, yes

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James May:
I’d like to declare the Honda Cub to be the greatest machine of all time;
Nay, the single most influential product of humankind’s creativity.

Best stick to commentating on the Beeb at his age eh?

i have seen bits of that video before but never the entire one with the interview ........ top find and a superb bit of footage

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The only thing He knows about Traffic Law is how to break every last mother f***ing one of them-Adam

Aye, nice to see one that actually shows the full lap.

Awesome to see the way he just taps on a bit of throttle to get the back stepping out, and then holds it all the way round. A lesser man would have been on his ass (or shoulder )

The guy is still a legend.

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Never break more than one law at a time, and never carry more grass than you are willing to eat.