I had the privilege of working as a mechanic for Steve at his Kawasaki Suzuki dealership in Bellingham back in the 90's. He is a Great Person to work for and a good friend.
@SteffanoDucati5 жыл бұрын
Ive met Steve Baker several times ... he' lives nearby and had a Kawasaki dealership in WA state ... really decent guy
@jacklizzard14285 жыл бұрын
Man oh man we used to watch him every time he was at Westwood! He would launch off of dears leap and seem to hang in the air for ever. At what seemed the last moment he would 'land' the bike and yank it into a tight right turn to start his run up to the start/finish, flicking that Yammy OW31 thru the esses like it was a part of him, and it was! Wide open throttle! I was 17/18 then, now at 63 I can still smell the Castrol two stroke. The best perfume ever! Those were the days... ;)) I'm riding my 15th motorcycle now! I road illegal, when I was 15yrs. old. Never got caught.
@jamesd21283 жыл бұрын
Sure miss Westwood, a great little circuit to watch guys like Goodfellow & Crevier & Rhys Howard. Those were the days !
@terrymcgahan50394 жыл бұрын
I was out on a 250 Cotton Starmaker on the Wednesday with all of these stars- It cost me almost nothing to share the track with GODs. I also rode as passenger in the sidecar race that day.
@sergiopiresbr11 жыл бұрын
Steve Baker was a fantastic rider!
@michaelbrooking928410 жыл бұрын
Steve Baker was a king on the OW31 Yamaha,
@ronaldhart63623 жыл бұрын
Great day...I remember it well...Brands was my local track.
@jer80123410 жыл бұрын
Awesome, Steve baker in fine form one of the fastest riders of all time, Good stuff!
@autocrow10 жыл бұрын
Nice footage! When Baker was in a race, he won the race. You could count on it.
@wmrra11232 жыл бұрын
I met Steve in 2015 when I went into his dealership to look at motorcycles I was talking to him and I noticed he had a ring on his finger that said Daytona 200 . That's not a ring they just hand out. Steve is a very humble guy and you have to try hard to get him to talk about his career. He is definitely a Hall of Fame rider for a reason.
@marleyorange5 жыл бұрын
r thanks for post- So glad I lived the era Formula 750 - My favorite!
@philbraithwaite13165 жыл бұрын
Lot of familiar names and faces when I used to attend many meetings in the second half of the 70s. Dear old Dave Potter, remember him smoking everyone off at the Race of Aces for the last time on the Snetterton long circuit in 78 or 9. Season started and ended at Brands with the Transatlantic Trophy on Good Friday and the Race of the South on the last weekend of October. Great memories, thanks for uploading this.
@ewennicolson43422 жыл бұрын
Baker looks effortless. like a run to the shops on his scooter.
@A-FrameWedge5 жыл бұрын
Steve Baker was the only rider on the front row who didn’t jump start, yet he still got the hole shot.
@thunderstruck20772 жыл бұрын
Mr.Baker Baking Away From Everyone.. Fast Bike + A Very Fast Rider !!
@justbrowsing196311 жыл бұрын
I watched this on tv all those years ago! First time I've seen it since then!! Thanks for sharing :)
@RichardRoyal22092 жыл бұрын
The good old time 😍
@bluehazeboy10 жыл бұрын
I was there that day :) hadn't long got my brand new Suzuki gt250 ,oh happy days
@iwb3169 жыл бұрын
+bluehazeboy I also was there spectating at Paddock Hill. Remember vividly the crash of Christian Sarron on the last lap @ 26:51. The T.V cameras don't really show how close that bike was to clearing the fence.
@bluehazeboy9 жыл бұрын
+iwb316 also Ron haslam,s crash, when the marshals had to go into the woods to retrieve the remains of a rather battered tz750
@Azzlad8 жыл бұрын
Steve Baker, even King Kenny couldn't catch him.
@bladerunnergonzalez3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic STEVE BAKER!!!.. my favorite rider!!! 💪💪💪😍😍😍
@davidmatthews297610 жыл бұрын
Cheers for doing this one Chris, Great stuff mate.
@16countach9 жыл бұрын
tyres made of wood .... murrays commentary is incredible !!! nobody can do it like him !
@Azzlad8 жыл бұрын
+16countach Murray say's Roger Marshall is OK as he writhes in agony, classic Murray.
@Bobby-fj8mk7 жыл бұрын
Those bikes were crazy fast & they didn't have modern tyres or electronics. Pity it's only at 240 pixels - this is history.
@alanrodriguez73413 жыл бұрын
Watching Pharoah Ron Haslam and Steve Baker Mnt. BAKER was really the ones to learn that they were quite smooth as the brake hard lean and hang off and point there knees into a 6 inch line was awesome and my style too !!! 👌
@PeterDad608 жыл бұрын
This is so great. I was tearing up the roads of long Island in 1977 on my new 1976 Triumph T140V Bonneville 750. She won every cafe road race for 10 consecutive years from 1977 till 1987 when I got married. I still have my Bonneville and she is 20 feet from me as I type this on 4/21/2016.
@JukkaX4 жыл бұрын
C. Sarron was racing already here, long before his top performances in GP500.. kewl.
@mercoid2 жыл бұрын
“The diminutive Steve Baker….” 😂
@triipn5 жыл бұрын
I had to laugh at the Announcer at the 17:35 mark when a Rider went down and got up hopping on one leg and holding his back in obvious pain and he's all "and the rider seems to be OK". lol
@ROBERTTIMCO10 жыл бұрын
passion every, where riders fans and Murray
@pabloperez40636 жыл бұрын
massive JUMP START
@Wally-H5 жыл бұрын
It was but with the old clutch starts that's what happened, I think the logistics of trying to bring them back to do it again would have been just too great!
@vonsauerkraut9 жыл бұрын
no abs- asp and all that computer crap we have now just man on there bikes
@vonsauerkraut9 жыл бұрын
but who is riding? are thay riding the bike or is the bike riding them
@vonsauerkraut9 жыл бұрын
it will get to a point where we won't need a rider there gut send the bike out is this some thing we won´t MOTO GP is geting like F1 you have two teams who can win and the rest just follow follow along with no chance
@vonsauerkraut9 жыл бұрын
yas it all come back so the same thing MONEY MONEY i this is why i watch BSB or world superbikes and not MOTO GP
@keithmartland64636 жыл бұрын
How times have changed, don't think you are allowed to stand around the track like you used to, no doubt when guys raced in these days they were men, no air bags and the likes of today!
@Team-fabulous4 жыл бұрын
So no creeping at the start lads please.......
@petems3283 Жыл бұрын
Was Kork Ballington in this?
@PointyTailofSatan4 жыл бұрын
I didnt know Murray Walker did bikes!
@robertcostall90544 жыл бұрын
Go to your yamaha dealer pick up a new tz 750 go racing chance of winning
@vonsauerkraut9 жыл бұрын
what ever happend to 750 class ?
@ewennicolson43425 жыл бұрын
They stopped making 750 2 stroke racers. TT F1 replaced it in the 80's with big 4 strokes, then Superbike appeared in the late 80's.
@JukkaX4 жыл бұрын
In 1979 all rode TZ750, at least in Hockenheim GP.. Other manufacturers didn't wanna play.
@cyclist39693 жыл бұрын
The 750 class was intended to supercede the European 500 cc class as the most prestigious class of racing. Over the decades since the 1920s, think of all the famous makes who raced 500 cc machines such as Norton, MV, Gilera, The few manufacturers who entered 750cc dropped out leaving only Yamaha, who also lost interest, the 500 cc class remained the premier class with Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki until Motogp 4-strokes entered the calendar
@frozenice612 жыл бұрын
@@ewennicolson4342 yamaha never sold road going750 2 strokes in the uk,650 four strokes and 500 ,rd 400 was to my memory the biggest 2 stroke yamaha did unlike suzuki or kawazaki
@tobytroubs2 жыл бұрын
I thought Steve Baker was a Canadian
@ewennicolson43424 жыл бұрын
"It's a very brave sport that, isn't it?" Frank 'coke & hookers' Bough.