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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: DJRacing on August 11, 2007, 07:06:49 pm
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To me the sweet sound of a 2 stroke on the pipe sounds as good as the top coming off a beer but there are the sounds of the old 4 strokers and the sound of the modern 4 strokers. Which one does it for ya, or is it all of them???
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Lots to listen to here...
http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Sounds.htm
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I know they are too loud, but the sound of a modern 4-stroke barking and driving is superb. As a kid, I loved the sound of the TT500 and later the first couple of XR500 models. Beautiful deep notes, but without the urgency and snap of a modern 4-stroke.
But NOTHING beats a 500cc 2-stroke pulling hard through 3rd and 4th on a big open track... BRRRAAAAAWWWWWWWRRRRRPPPPPPPPP
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I just posted a cross section of motox bike sounds in Yamaha
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CCM full noise at Christmas Hills Victoria Grand National scramble circa 1974. ;) Next event the sidecars Norton's, Yamaha's , Triumphs, Bsa's Honda754s and Kawasaki Z900s ,various Brit singles all wonderful ear music!!!!and course Two stroke Suzuki water bottles losing all too the sound of over revving chambers of Kawasaki 750 triples !!!!!!!!!!!
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Tell you what used to sound good when I was a kid. A guy down the road had a GT550 with a set of chambers (Bromlech or something like that I believe). He would hammer that thing through the gears and it had this wonderful long smooth ripping sound. Superb!
And yes, a CCM at full noise sounds glorious too...
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Talking old roadies, as a young fella we lived out in the country, and this guy had a z900 with a 4into1 on it and ya could hear that thing coming down the road and throttling off as he had to go round a sweeper about 100m away and then excellerate out of it.
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I love the sound of 40 four strokes from when the 5 second board goes up and when the gate drops. Or either bike going through the whoops.
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or is it all of them???
The still the day before VMX-the turbulent action scene of race day-the still after race day !!
Two extreme scales are just amazing !! 8)
cheers A
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I love the sound of the modern motor/x bikes (both 2 and 4 stroke) about 3sec before I drop the gates :) Darcy
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Thats a hard one , for me anything that is tuned right and on the gas sounds good, l guess if l had to pick just one, cant beet the sound of a good big bore 2 stroke, 1-2-3 or 4 cylinders.........mmmm 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Pops , the sound of that re- phased ( or what it is called ) chair does it for me.
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How about - ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ - the sound of 250 amps cutting loose at the 2014 nationals!!!
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Cant beat the sounds of the old brit bangers for me 8)
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Any two stroke especially when you can hear it echoing it through the bush or hear it coming up the road you know it is a two stroke but you are just hanging out to see what sort it is.
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I can still hear the opening moto at Manjimup for the MX Des..the 500's storming up Rock N Roll Hill at full song...Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up..still does...
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Whatever that side car thing was at classic dirt last year.
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Oldfart and Barnzy, the sound you both herd was that of an XS 650 motor with the crank turned 90 deg, rephased is it. It is also bored to 85mm instead of 75mm so 840cc and all the rest of the fruit to go with it, it sounds just like a Ducati awsome.........
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It sounds just like a Ducati awsome.........
Sounded more like a sprint car to me ;D
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The still the day before VMX-the turbulent action scene of race day-the still after race day !!
Two extreme scales are just amazing !! 8)
cheers A
I just love the quiet of the morning in an open field and hated it when some prick was the first to start a bike up as race time neared. Of course I loved listening to them 5 minutes later.
The best bike noises are the ones usually that have the best of riders on them and are being used properly and on that note (pun intended) and while not strictly MX but dirtbikes at least, the pair of factory XR750 Harleys at Parklands longtrack will stay in my mind for a long time - if you have never heard one for real make an effort to if you ever have the chance. Harleys they do not sound liketh ....
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Yeah XR750 on full song is something to behold.
At the recent Classic DT Titles my missus was packing up her t-shirt stall and was approached by a well dressed Japanese guy wondering if he can buy a shirt. He turned out to be an employee of Kawasaki Japan who is in Australia on a work stint and was working somewhere over in the nearby industrial area and could here the ring of two strokes all day. He said he had never heard two strokes at a race meet so had to come and experience it first hand.
Subsequently he paid the bucks and walked away with a Brad Lackey/Kawasaki Charley Morey signature print t-shirt, and a very happy man to have seen old two strokes battle it out for the chequered flag.
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A good old 125 thrashing still sounds great amongst the farting four strokes (really good audio on this one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQpYz7s6sk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQpYz7s6sk)
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A good old 125 thrashing still sounds great amongst the farting four strokes (really good audio on this one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQpYz7s6sk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQpYz7s6sk)
He's quite quick isn't he?
Like the sound of 125 but prefer the sound of a 250 2T on the pipe.
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BEE HIVE 125s Manjimup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYNAzDJD21E#t=115
I can still hear the opening moto at Manjimup for the MX Des..the 500's storming up Rock N Roll Hill at full song...Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up..still does...
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a 2 stroke on the pipe being quick shifted but preferably the 500s - oh man - it's awesome. But must admit I saw a GSX1100 on the Dyno at Freo bike show one year. It isn't very often you get to hear something that big taken to about 3rd/4th cog and then flat chaged and held all the way to top and redline - dam near wet myself - what a sound.
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Sounds of MX
Listen very closely
Nothing. Silence
Maico ;D
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Sounds of MX
Listen very closely
Nothing. Silence
Maico ;D
Shouldn't that have started with a 'clang'.
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followed by a clunk!
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Now now boys, this Maico Breako nonsense is getting a bit tedious so stop it right now or I'll have to send you all to the naughty corner. >:( .
As far as the sound of motocross.....each to his own of course but a 500 unit Triumph on the boil gets my blood pumping. Anyone who's heard Vern Grayson's Cheney getting the ring revved out of it will know what I'm talking about ;).
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Verns Triumph super sweet Sound, heard it up close, from in front of me, from behind me and nearly over the top of me. ;) ;D ;D 8) 8)
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I say ya can't beat the sound of big old BSA single barking around a track. And when it's mixed with the grumble of the unit Triumphs, it's a symphony any composer would be glad he composed ;D
I have to admit the big bore 2 smokers make a great noise as well.
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I have heard them all, and for me there was nothing better than a grid full of Factory 500 MXers off the start at a Grand Prix in the Eighties.
A factory 500 had a much deeper bark to it than a Production Bike.
To hear them in a valley all at full throttle together was like nothing else!
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The sweetest sound of motocross I have ever heard was DeCoster, Geboers, Rahier & Robert out practicing - all on works Suzukis before mufflers were mandatory.
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* 8)* Miller v Ploen, hunched over the tank and hooking gears down the big, grassy downhill main straight at Gordonton, eyeballing each other on RN400s... :P
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I can still vividly remember the Bark of the lone Elsinore down the end of our road at the creek that sweet buitiful sound reverbarating off the trees :'(
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I think the sound of the first Moto at the MXDN at Manji.... the 500's powering into the first turn and then pulling up Rock'n Roll hill for the first time... still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up..!!
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I was about 12 years old and mucking around in the backyard when I suddenly heard this loud BWAARRP, BWAARRP , BWAARRP sound bellowing from somewhere in Maroubras suburban hinterland. To me it was the sound of the JAP speedway bikes I'd come to love at my beloved Sydney Showground so I was expecting to find one of my speedway heroes tuning his beast for the upcoming Saturday night meeting. I hopped on my Malvern Star and rode up and down the streets and lanes of old Maroubra Junction until I eventually in Alma Lane I found two blokes that looked as cool as Buddy Holly with their Brylcreemed rocker 'do's working in an immaculate British Racing Green tanked BSA Goldstar scrambler. My new heroes were getting the bike ready for the next days Moorebank Scrambles and little did they or I know that that little passage of time would ignite in me a lifelong passion for scrambles and the sound of British singles. Fifty years later that sound still gives me goosebumps.
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kenny roberts tz dirt tracker
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I was about 12 years old and mucking around in the backyard when I suddenly heard this loud BWAARRP, BWAARRP , BWAARRP sound bellowing from somewhere in Maroubras suburban hinterland. To me it was the sound of the JAP speedway bikes I'd come to love at my beloved Sydney Showground so I was expecting to find one of my speedway heroes tuning his beast for the upcoming Saturday night meeting. I hopped on my Malvern Star and rode up and down the streets and lanes of old Maroubra Junction until I eventually in Alma Lane I found two blokes that looked as cool as Buddy Holly with their Brylcreemed rocker 'do's working in an immaculate British Racing Green tanked BSA Goldstar scrambler. My new heroes were getting the bike ready for the next days Moorebank Scrambles and little did they or I know that that little passage of time would ignite in me a lifelong passion for scrambles and the sound of British singles. Fifty years later that sound still gives me goosebumps.
Ah the sound of Sydney Showground speedway on a Saturday night still live with me too. The sound of the big Jawas at full song before the days of the ridiculous mufflers (and mudflaps!) was something I HAD TO HAVE every Saturday night. A whole group of us would ride our pushies from Randwick and stash them in the bushes of Centenial Park before going into the Speedway. I used to stand at the fence just so I could get roosted by Ivan Mauger and Phil Crump. The sound of the big 2 st outfits was pretty special too, as well as the little pink mini cooper that raced in amongst all the "big cars" and somehow snaked it's way through the field....Those were good days for a city kid.
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The Sydney Royale Speedway the sound of Glen and Gary Innes on the Kwaka triple 2 stroke sidecar, along with the sweet sound of a two stroke 4,8 or 12 cyl Detroit diesel two stroke.
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Well as a kid riding my xr75 at menai in NSW in 1974 I think and hearing the first Elsinore screaming along, that sound of a two stroke could be heard anywhere and then that smell of methanol after it went past. Couldnt wait to get a two stroke , Got myself the YZ125x which I still own and took it out for its first ride in 32 years after the rebuild. Just as much fun and just as great sound
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While the sound from a field of 500cc 2 stroke MX bikes is what I love the most, I did get to go to Adelaide F1 GP in 1988. The noise from a grid of 1.5 litre turbo F1 cars was something special also. The funny thing is F1 is going to 1.6 litre turbos next year. They will be at lower revs and less boost but still similar.
Kevin
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Best sound for me, reverse-cone mega on a CCM 500, makes me jizz my pants.
I use to race a 3 cyl 900 Benelli, after every race people would come to tell me how horn it sounded.
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Not motocross but...........an F1 field in the pre turbo 3 litre era hammering to the first turn, a weber equipped small block Windsor 302 Ford on full hog, a top fuel dragster throttle blip, my V12 Jaguar with the airboxes removed at 7000rpm, a cranky, hotted up to the shithouse, cammy red holden motor with Webers and an MV Augusta on the redline. Music, my friends, music.
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A two stroke at full song is music to me , but there are a Cpl of cars that have made a impression over the years two that come to mind are John Goss's Jag at Bathurst that was awesome and a Cpl of years ago at the Longford revival they brought out Allan Moffet's Mustang on the flying mile . I don't think there was one petrol head there that was not grinning even the Holden fans had smiles . Iain
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There ya go Ian.....you and I agree on the small block ford 302...Moffats Mustang and the V12 Jag. There aren't very many production cars you can buy for under 10 that sound as sweet as a V12 Jag.
As a side note....I found a bloke interested in buying my XJ-S today and thankfully it's a mate who wants to do a grounds up resto on it. It'll be staying almost in the family so I don't mind so much selling it now. Now I can look a bit closer at the 69 Ranchero I've been considering, also small block 302 powered ;D.
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A 410 cubic inch sprintcar engine at Eldora speedway in the USA at full noise with no mufflers is pretty hard core.Sitting in the stands with a corrugated iron roof and a licensed bar right behind your left shoulder is prett cool.Your talking 850 hp on dirt .
Only been once but a top fuel dragster at max speed turns into a diesel and the sound is porn, nothing like a Bully single though.
Bring on the evo class at the TBC. Can't wait.
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Best sound for me, reverse-cone mega on a CCM 500, makes me jizz my pants.
You are a man with great taste my friend....The only thing better than one CCM barking out it's song is a whole heap of them together 8) .....so when are you building your CCM/BSA and getting off those 2 strokes John?
As for cars, the sound of a hotted up holden red 6 with triples and straight cut timing gears in an LJ Torana is pretty damn special. Somehow, the red 6 always sounded different in the Torana....
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V12 Aston Martin winning at Highland Park N.Z. in November sounded special,
not as good a grid full of 500cc 2 strokes,
but whats all that got to do with motorcycles?
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Try these two links.
All powers pre 85 start. back in 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrfYJR-y2Cg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQgcRFxLWIo