Troy Corser @ Goodwood 2018

When you watch the Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy Race at Goodwood, you see MotoGP riders racing without all the modern aids. It is much more genuine. The Lansdowne Cup Races are also excellent. Racing old single and twin cylinder bikes becomes subject to the law of diminishing returns, as far as technology is concerned. So you see the riders at their best.
 
Bike no 25 is a late 1920,s 500cc single ,no supercharger Rudge and its not far behind. Previously won the same race in the wet. Much more impressive !!
 
When you watch the Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy Race at Goodwood, you see MotoGP riders racing without all the modern aids. It is much more genuine. The Lansdowne Cup Races are also excellent. Racing old single and twin cylinder bikes becomes subject to the law of diminishing returns, as far as technology is concerned. So you see the riders at their best.
The technology making the riders less genuine thought process reminds me of the blood doping scandal in the tour back when Armstrong was winning. If everyone is blood doping and you beat them, who's the least genuine, the guys in front or the back markers? Don't try and figure out how my brain works. It usually doesn't work like it should. lol

Anyway, yes they are riding old hardware and still moving right along.
 
Anyone who has not ridden that old crap probabvly does not recognise what is involved. With those old bikes, you brain is usually glued to the rear tyre contact patch with the road. If it moves, what happens, happens extremely quickly. When the Japanese two-strokes arrived, racing became much easier for some. But those of us who persevered had a real problem keeping up.
In 1963, I was at Bathurst and watched (can't think of his name - the guy who helped Kenny Roberts ) trounce all the 500cc Manx Nortons with a 250cc Honda four. But he got beaten in one race at Phillip Island by Ron Toombs with the 500cc four valve Henderson Matchless G50.
 
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