I agree my friend.

Gregory Parrott - Clearly, it wasn't the bike...it was the rider who was kicking butt! So cool to see an awesome old machine like this being wrung out by a skilled rider.

Ken Deater Agreed

@@deaterk Well, the bike can't be that slow, otherwise he couldn't have that much speed on the straights but i agree, this shiftting mechanisme must really require some skill XD.

Mandernach Luca - Non... That IS a 'fast as balls' old bike. No argument there mon frere. But our intrepid rider has more than ' a little skill'. That should be obvious to any viewer.

Capt. Nemo - Thanks Capt!

Yeah I agree with this one. I loved hooning the shit out of my beach cruiser.

Rene van der Kraats I used to own an 86 VFR750... I was second owner, first owner had tricked it out for racing then added signals, etc. back to it to use as his road bike after he crashed it and damaged the frame in a way they wouldn’t let it on the track (a dent in the frame that didn’t bend the frame). I had it up to 140 once..... made the conscious decision to never go over 100 again..... I can safely say he corners faster than I did on that bike 99.99% of the time..... was about to get a new bike when COVID19 interrupted my cash flow.....

@@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ VFR's are splendid bikes. They're so versatile, you can do anything confidently with them. Love that V-4 drone also :) I sold my '99 Aprilia RSV1000 which I owned from new for 20 years (Rotax engineered V-2, solid bike!), I've turned the pace down a bit since then, and ride a R-Nine-T now.

Fark...I Know I am !

I don't know wether they could fill a pre war class. Not many bikes of that time are still in driving condition.

Peter Griffin if they made a pre war only class, many racing bikes of that era would make the effort to be there. You would be surprised how many Velocette KTTs, Norton Internationals, Moto Guzzis and BMWs are out on the classic racing circuit. Imagine seeing an entire race of girder forked machines like the BMW Troy Corser won on.

buncho888 hell ya Im in

Which rock do you people hide under not to not actually have any footage from the Historic Winton event at Benalla, and yet still try to persuade yourselves you know motorcycling???

He is merely overpowering them in the straight aways because his bike has more horsepower. He is cornering slowly and not really doing anything special other than having more horsepower.

Where did you get these numbers? This motorcycle is supposed to produce between 55 and 60 hp and its top speed is 220km/h.

In the German wiki ("BMW 500 Kompressor"), in the text it's rated at 60 hp, but in the scheme on the right it's rated at 108. Clearly a typo that should be fixed.

No way that bike doe's 250km/h! Try maybe 190!

There's a double overtake at 2:07, he passes 12 and 61

He said 82. not 89.

hhoward14 Scroll up and read the title of the video. I'll wait.

Well that,s fine then. All I was pointing out to the poster was that the TV commentator said "82", and I still think he did. I don't personally know how old it is, but I think it's all rather rather wonderful to see...

Common core math 🤔🤔

Common core math 🤔🤔🤔

no front suspension !!!!!

This is definitely NOT a 1939 BMW - In 1939 the supercharged BMW had telescopic front forks, plunger rear springing, the compressor on the front, foot gear change, and Schorsch Meier won the TT of Man on it!

Joep Kortekaas 1936 my bad

Joep Kortekaas lol I was wrong again, this BMW is from 1929

Extremely stiff or non-existent suspension will lessen your grip since the tyre keeps bouncing and has trouble staying on the road since it cannot travel down to grip normally, even more so if the road is not decently even at all points. Plus, this makes it so that your grip levels keep spiking thus if you push too hard you'll lose control unexpectedly.

Professionally Hunted true but if you know you can use to your advantage. The proof on a race circuit is in the pudding

They do when they are pumping out 200+ bhp. This thing has less than 40.

But only if they are using that amount of bhp, which hardly any of them do. Certainly not on the road.

I said that because many guys i know wants to swap 160mm for 180mm rear tire on CBR 600 with 90cv or 150mm for 170mm rear tire on Harley 1600 with 75cv ,, or 189mm for 190mm rear tire in Ducati with about 100cv ... that's not the point of having 10mm or 20mm more on you the rear tire.. but when you will be able to put on stress your standard rear tire without changing it .. it will means that you've reached the limit of your bike .. and i doubt any of them will be capable of it .. including myself .. :-)

1990, you are dead right : it's useable power that counts. Torque is much more important : when you snap the throttle open and there's nothing there because you're 5k from where the power is.

Hehe. Anyone for electric?

Yeah Nascar should use production cars again. Not those shitty bodies with stickers on cages.

Hudson Hornet..?? 😂😂