Racing a Moto Guzzi V7

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4 жыл бұрын

44T were invited to race a Moto Guzzi V7 in an endurance series, so the only man with a race licence hopped on a plane to Adria International Raceway and joined forces with Fast Bikes' Mike Booth for a UK assault. Things didn't go swimmingly...
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@FortyFourTeeth 4 жыл бұрын

Apologies for the lack of action; GoPros were banned and the Italian videographer went AWOL

@matthewst.andrew10 4 жыл бұрын

44Teeth what happened to the lad at the initial start? Did he pin it straight into the wall off the launch?

@callumodonnell2181 4 жыл бұрын

When will the Dakar training video be released?

@jediknight1294 4 жыл бұрын

Typical italian racing then...

@FortyFourTeeth 4 жыл бұрын

Callum O'Donnell - soon, hopefully. It’s been a fecker to edit

@FortyFourTeeth 4 жыл бұрын

Matthew St. Andrew - it was a lady. They had to bump it and she must have whiskey throttle’d it. Hit a marshall and broke his leg

@kr46 4 жыл бұрын

3 Crashes and a fist fight like a normal night in Bristol ... good work Penfold.

@themightydash1714 4 жыл бұрын

Someone should start a series like this in the UK on the Royal Enfield 650s... That'd be so fun.

@ojfrancis 4 жыл бұрын

The Mighty Dash use to have Harley xr1200 at bsb races

@Eidrian111 3 жыл бұрын

That would be great and really affordable.

@tokyosmash 2 жыл бұрын

It’s coming, the pilot is a season deep in India.

@MrMinimanmatt 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta be one of the best sounding race series

@ErikLosLobos 4 жыл бұрын

Moto Guzzi endurance racing ends exactly as expected...within the hour

@ferrumignis 4 жыл бұрын

🤣 Very true

@FernandoT8 4 жыл бұрын

Well played. Lolll

@davidebonannini640 4 жыл бұрын

Paul Coombes good to know you've got one. Terrific bikes.

4 жыл бұрын

7:30 bringing the fun back to racing!

@grahamsmith4988 3 жыл бұрын

Possible lack of mechanical sympathy for an agricultural gearbox? Takes me back to the 883 series, bloody good fun on 58hp.

@adamwenczel9217 4 жыл бұрын

When adding .2 of a second becomes an exaggeration! Lol. Nice work gents.

@mosca3289 4 жыл бұрын

Just a bit of fun: queue the pit lane fight.

@dogrange 4 жыл бұрын

Whoa, Boothy rocked that restart!

@missydee6085 4 жыл бұрын

You can see how hot it was there - as Statham's 44 Teeth logo on his T-shirt was melting.

@dormantat 4 жыл бұрын

fantastic video. more of these please.

@janra8653 4 жыл бұрын

Great show, more of this please !!!

@wakeupamerica4610 4 жыл бұрын

I owned and rode and put 253,000 miles on 1973 moto guzzi Eldorado police.NOT ONE SINGLE BREAKDOWN ,PROBLEM EVER EVER EVER ON THAT BIKE!!!

@raynic1173 4 жыл бұрын

My dad has a '73 Ambassador, Only replaced clutch outside of normal maintenance. But that was to be expected after teaching 5 kids how to ride on that thing!

@JFish-xj8oj 4 жыл бұрын

Best video in awhile fellas. Loved watching this one

@dirtrida274 4 жыл бұрын

Jason Stathom and Stiffler go racing and bang walls.

@exup100011 4 жыл бұрын

"Its not the winning its the taking part" Great content anyhow, thanks.

@KrikkitWarlord 4 жыл бұрын

Statham you have the worst luck with ham-fisted team-mates ;) Great video, looked like fun despite the disappointment.

@link6032 4 жыл бұрын

Love these type of video's, great banter and (hopefully) some racing soon. How about Perkins showing up sometime ? 👍🏻

@itchyscratchy8216 4 жыл бұрын

Love this race vids boys got try next year again!!

@MikeBikeOriginal 4 жыл бұрын

Read title --> give it a like straight on. Would love to see a modern classics race series. Looks like legit fun. Good job guys!

@nigelhibberd7377 4 жыл бұрын

Great video guys! I live in Western Austria and ride a 2014 Guzzi V7 Racer (as well as an Aprilia Tuono) and love it. Not the fastest but great fun to ride. Looking forward to your second attempt, but I guess you might have to wait a bit in Corona year.....

@HippoDrones 4 жыл бұрын

Still an awesome vid and the Moto Guzzi V7 is a funtastic bike, loved mine on track at Anglesey and Brands Hatch GP! :D

@MrB590 4 жыл бұрын

Love the moto guzzi,s v7 , i test rode the v7 3 loved it

@milkysocks5613 4 жыл бұрын

Is the video from the desert you two was talking about a while back due soon? Thanks for all the free content :)

@tommidahlberg1451 4 жыл бұрын

Guzzi is an obvious choice for a track hack, bloody brilliant!

@blister4walken 4 жыл бұрын

Fagans' face after the first stint 😁 Same face i have while trying to shift a 'King Kongs' Finger'.

@davep6286 4 жыл бұрын

Liked your Tom Sykes impression. 10.49 Ya just forgot ya cuppa Tea!

@motorbiketoureruk 4 жыл бұрын

Unlucky boys! That looks like a brilliant series, if the bike didn’t break down

@t3chhh 4 жыл бұрын

How did that bloke go into the wall at the start?

@DanielBrain 4 жыл бұрын

@44Teeth said above: "It was a lady. They had to bump it and she must have whiskey throttle’d it. Hit a marshall and broke his leg"

@rotarolla1 3 жыл бұрын

To me this is the best fucki g episode for ages, epic bike, epic crew, epic track...what a weekend

@n3f2r80 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing video guys

@jjcglobalapplestv7529 4 жыл бұрын

Another fun video, What's happing next any beach off-road action coming

@baz8996 4 жыл бұрын

Pity bout the mechanical, but great vid as usual lad!

@jiffjiffernson7292 4 жыл бұрын

Still the best stuff on the interweb! Better luck next go!

@dukerider694 4 жыл бұрын

Baron needs his ACU license it’s all his fault

@wobblysauce 4 жыл бұрын

Running out of people to break bikes.

@cirian75 4 жыл бұрын

the Fast Bikes curse, breaking bikes since 1987

@boothy6057 4 жыл бұрын

Since 1992 actually ... but I get your point!!

@cirian75 4 жыл бұрын

@@boothy6057 Colin Schiller the creator of fast bikes magazine published the first fast bikes publication which was a book in 1987, the magazine followed 5 years later

@cirian75 4 жыл бұрын

Fast Bikes www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0850457610/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_k6HIDbA0YF27F

@boothy6057 4 жыл бұрын

Fair play mate, you know you're onions! The first mag was '92, but I hadn't considered any of the earlier publications! Nice one

@miirkosbrana8759 4 ай бұрын

😂😂ahahah mi avete fatto schianta... Con la musica siciliana in romagna ah ah ah😂😂 numero uno

@Johnnywhamo 4 жыл бұрын

The ole Pirelli Phantoms I use to run those on my 79 RD 400 Daytona, great tires!

@rustynuts82 6 ай бұрын

Thats racing! hard luck chaps

@Gautam454 4 жыл бұрын

The Italian themed music is pure gold !

@strong646 4 жыл бұрын

Boothy joining your videos, finally!

@mikyGTT 4 жыл бұрын

Is there anything else you admire about me ... ? Ha ha ! Another top video, cheers gents.

@nicolacristofoli724 4 жыл бұрын

Having a (former) Ducati MotoGP tester fix your bike: tick! ✔😁

@scudonepercenter 4 жыл бұрын

Guareschi! SBK rider, MotoGP test rider and Ducati MotoGP team manager.

@gapmandan-ttv6408 4 жыл бұрын

Received my Jizz machine sticker today ... in love with it 😂😂🤘

@DonnieDesmo 4 жыл бұрын

That bike sounds fabulous

@ericgustafsson9008 4 жыл бұрын

11:14 - those sideburns are for real!!

@ericgustafsson9008 4 жыл бұрын

Sitting down is the best

@rosscoad19861 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely gutted you didnt get to ride again. Maybe next time.

@rudymurillo1693 3 жыл бұрын

What exhaust system did that track Moto-Guzzi v7 racer have?

@codenamenoob4973 4 жыл бұрын

You would think they'd know where they're going come race day given that they've already been there 😂

@HypnoticPattern 4 жыл бұрын

the gearbox on my friend's v7 also took a crap once. Damn guzzis.

@LambChopRides 4 жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable gents 👍👍

@seanperks2702 4 жыл бұрын

Saw an rs125 in the background

@MyPaulo1988 4 жыл бұрын

Bad luck lads

@OtisENGINEuity 4 жыл бұрын

I love Moto Guzzis but damn they need to make some new heads for those things and up the compression and make a V7 that actually has balls. 50HP for that size engine just isn't enough in today's market. Granted the bike is slated as their economy model and not a performance one but they should be able to make a version of it with around 90-100HP. Most of the lack of power is in the head/piston & cams design as well as the single small throttle body. For any of you that don't know, the V7 has a completely flat cylinder head, there is no combustion chamber in it, the valves open into a massive relief in the top of the piston, much like how the W head 349/409 Chevy engines worked. It's only about 8.7:1 compression. If they upped that to 11.5-12:1 (which is common on modern injected engines) you'd easily double the power, especially if you added good cams and dual throttle bodies. A set of hemi heads on a V7 would be wicked.

@VPB1970 4 жыл бұрын

The v7 mk3 has hemi heads. Still no ohc but no more flat heads,. No matter what it’s still 52 hp, but a different power and torque curve from the v7 mk2. I really don’t care, I really, really love my v7iii!

@endurojimmy3109 2 жыл бұрын

It sounds back to front, but you can skim the top of the pistons on a heron head and then skim either the barrel or head (I haven't looked at the V7) to raise the CR. I agree though, the V7 really needs some more ponies.

@OtisENGINEuity 2 жыл бұрын

@@endurojimmy3109 decking the head would do nothing on a head that has no combustion chamber. The biggest problem with those engines is that they have tiny ports and valves and don't flow for anything.

@endurojimmy3109 2 жыл бұрын

@@OtisENGINEuity You're right, the small ports are a limiting factor, so as I see it, the way forward is to increase the thermal efficiency of the charge by increasing the CR. As I have mentioned it's not just a case of decking the head. Moto Morini 3 1/2 have a heron head, they have two available pistons strada 10:1 and sport 11:1 they did this by bringing the combustion chamber in the piston closer to the top of the piston. I saw that a guy has replicated this on a V7 by machining the top of the pistons so its closer to the combustion chambers and then I think he machined the barrels to raise the CR. I think he was running 11.5:1. If I can find the thread again I will post it.

@OtisENGINEuity 2 жыл бұрын

@@endurojimmy3109 cutting down the cylinder height would actually cost you displacement. A far easier thing to do would just be to change the rods at that point for some that are a bit longer to make up the difference, or change the pistons all together. It doesn't matter what the compression ratio is at a point. You can have an engine that's 15:1 but if the ports are tiny it's never going to make power because it's like breathing through a straw.

@noaddiction3194 4 жыл бұрын

Test riiden the V7 racer on local track and it's slower than my suzuki gw250 that I rode to the track... Engine 3 times bigger, cost 5 times more, with much racier ergo, I'm shocked.

@ericbouza854 4 жыл бұрын

Bike looks awesome. 😲

@jhstony 4 жыл бұрын

Not again.........will you ever get to do an endurance race ?

@Nexus-6 4 жыл бұрын

18:26 - "Pushing the bike back, won't drive.." So...it's Italian then?

@janra8653 4 жыл бұрын

No, must be ktm - I know I have a 690

@codenamenoob4973 4 жыл бұрын

@@janra8653 must be a bad owner 😜

@ToddDavey 4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know what the OG Fast Bikes guys are up to? (Aside from Shakey)

@DarkHRMT 4 жыл бұрын

Audio and video setup???

@chillax498 4 жыл бұрын

Unlucky Al.. next time mate!

@Juuul89 4 жыл бұрын

Is this thesame race that James highsided?

@ducatimale 2 жыл бұрын

2:47. an hours endurance race? that's even less than an action scene with rocco siffredi.

@dashford06 4 жыл бұрын

Great video; pity about the race. How did your teammate (Boobie??) manage to get videos of himself sitting trackside after the mechanical issues - did he have his mobile phone with him???

@FortyFourTeeth 4 жыл бұрын

Boothy a TT racer. Every TT racer carries a phone just in case of breakdowns/issues

@dashford06 4 жыл бұрын

@@FortyFourTeeth Boothy! Boothy! Sorry! Well, I guess that's why leathers have that convenient vest pocket. Good to know. Hope to make the TT (spectator, alas) in 2020, it's been a life-long dream.

@crc0889 4 жыл бұрын

Booby hahaha

@boothy6057 4 жыл бұрын

Haha, people have called me a lot worse!

@artby2wenty 4 жыл бұрын

Are you and Howard Moon seeing other people right now?

@benj5386 4 жыл бұрын

Ed Stafford races bikes too? No end to his talents.

@theavangelist 4 жыл бұрын

Makes me so sad the season is basically over before it startes 😭

@gliddofglood 3 жыл бұрын

That was funny, but frustrating, Oh well, Good entertainment. Charz.

@SilverfoxJB 4 жыл бұрын

Poor Fagin, regardless, it was a great vlog.

@raynic1173 4 жыл бұрын

An Italian bike with "accordion" type suspension, only fitting.

@StreetTwinRider 3 жыл бұрын

Those tyres are absolute... yeh...

@StreetTwinRider 3 жыл бұрын

Scott Martin got them on my street twin. They’re ok in the summer so long as the road has a good surface and it’s dry. But they’re sketchy as shit!

@Wheels_Unlimited 4 жыл бұрын

It sounds good, if nothing else.

@mitchmcpherson 4 жыл бұрын

What was the deal with the attempted punch on?

@jediknight1294 4 жыл бұрын

Italians plus racing plus heat simple.

@scottieray 4 жыл бұрын

You were eyeing that RGV250...

@droptuned83 4 жыл бұрын

Hang on Vito Geressi has a brother? Called Nigle !

@rickbates9232 4 жыл бұрын

If Al could lose some weight and learn to run he could go first. ;-)

@dmail00 4 жыл бұрын

He did try and loose weight by having a shite.

@R2robot 4 жыл бұрын

I thought Redding was going to whip him into shape, but Al was DESTROYED after the warmup session. lol

@theMightywooosh 4 жыл бұрын

looks like the guy from That Mitchell and Webb Look

@boothy6057 4 жыл бұрын

I dont know what you are talking about!

@RocketGarageMagazine 3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunate ride, it happens

@rzu7120 4 жыл бұрын

I thought the bikes sounded great!

@JBLMotovlogs 4 жыл бұрын

Poor Chris never gets to do owt anymore 😂 #pray4baron 😉

@paulfastbikes361 4 жыл бұрын

Shame mate having no luck next time you insist on going first!

@snyderryanw81 3 жыл бұрын

I guess it was a cold morning?🤏

@martybartfast 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video, but I'd like to see sub-titles for the parts where speech is hardly audible due to bike noise, etc. 🏍🏍👍

@stevec9959 4 жыл бұрын

Tom Cleverley makes a guest appearance ...

@salisburyplain998 4 жыл бұрын

So not completly standard then lol

@ferrumignis 4 жыл бұрын

Completely standard, apart from all the bits that aren't. The brake pads were standard by the sound of it.

@jediknight1294 4 жыл бұрын

Honestly the suspension comes on one of the high end model MG's anyway, an exhaust is a given and lights/mirrors is a safety thing, its as close to standard as you're going to get. You probably could ride a bike to the event and race it.

@ferrumignis 4 жыл бұрын

@@jediknight1294 And the rearsets? It's not standard, no matter how you look at it.

@jediknight1294 4 жыл бұрын

@@ferrumignis the standard is the same across all the bikes in the series, nobody is going to race an entirely non modded streetbike. The rearsets is a safety thing setting the bike to the rider and increasing ground clearance so you have less chance of binning it scraping a peg. though you get them as an option iirc on one of the leMans V7's. Its a one make and model race series with a standard allowed spec and its what a grand maybe 2 over a stock v7 of that model. None of it is stuff owners arent fitting for roaduse either. Everything they change is stuff expected for racing, levers, rearsets, exhaust. The suspension is just taking advantage of a high spec version of the v7, could do it on stock roadbike bodywork and a couple of the bikes there were so honestly its not unreasonable to label it a standard series same as the old LC350 production racing.

@ifrit35 4 жыл бұрын

@@jediknight1294 To be fair, it may not be the most impressive motorcycle on a spec sheet but it looks like they didn't cut corners when it comes to suspensions, contrary to so many Japanese manufacturers. And it is shaft driven, which makes sense on the street. It seems like a well rounded machine to me.