Kenny Roberts TZ750

[cbc]

Hey Tony was that pic at the 87 Finke you! And did end painfully?

[Tony T]

Yes & yes............   

I take it I did include that CD then?

btw I looked for the Pitmans TZ750 photos from Bathurst last night and couldn't find them. I'll keep looking. Found some of the Marlboro FZ's from the same meeting but no TZ's. 

[cbc]

ouch!!!!!!

[Lozza]

Not from forum member msmola2002 as the lucky b'stard was there but here is the first couple of videos from the Indy Mile run in conjuction with the MotoGP
CLIP 1 such a pity Kenny couldn't have opened it up and give it the berries, wonder the plugs didn't foul.The bikes builder Kel Curruthers is there also.

CLIP 2 has the good quote "What is it?" ..."it's a tooo stroke"

[firko]

                 
                                            Kel, Valentino and Kenny on board the big TZ750 tracker below.
                 

[TT]

Incidently, my Safari mechanic, Trev Otto is a wizz with the TZ750/500 engines.
He still get guys send engines from all over the world to get him to rebuild them.

[Freakshow]

Hey Tony, i was trying to hit Trev up to shoot the YZ with one of his TZ in the background, kinda Grand national style for the mag, bit of a garge shot, but he told me he only had a one in bits and was a "C" model. 

Was after an A or B for the shot, but if you bump into him put the word on , maybe he was keeping mum, muller sold his off so he says and the other old chap that had one in Sa pulled the same line on me, very secret squirrel. 

MAl pitman has one but i think his is a C as well.  keep you ears out and on.

[Lozza]

I saw that pic on the MotoGP website firko, and I reckon the first Youtube clip cuts moments short of when Vale must have come out and surprised Kenny.Oops edit these are the ones on the MotoGP site





REPORT
Got a report Kenny was lapping as if not faster(43.5) than race times that night

[firko]

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2009/Oct/091005b.htm

[Colin Jay]

Although it does not have a Champion frame, the picture below is a replica of Kenny's bike built up by Chris Fraser from the Silverton Hotel with the help of a few of his mates last year. So far he has displayed it at a couple of classic bike events. As far as I know, he isn't going to try to try and ride it, even though he has a few Australian longtrack sidecar championships to his name from years gone by riding a Suzuki RG500 Mk8 outfit.



CJ

[colmoody]

Does anyonyone know where that clip on you tube has gone of the only time he raced that weapon where he came from behind to beat the fergies on the last bend of the last last lap. Have watched that clip a few times over the last few years but when I tried to find it a month or so ago to show  a mate it did'nt see to be there.

Lozza, to think that Kenny was lapping as quick as the guns on the night is certainly the stuff that legends are made of. If that was the case though something is not quite right.

[Lozza]

Col well a fellow who was there timed them with a stopwatch. So unless he lied to me or the stopwatch lied that's how it was. A few more turned up at the STOCKTON MILE a week or so later.

[oldyzman]

Great thread.... sounds Awesom
YZMAN

[Lozza]

THIS just turned up on youtube, balls the size of watermelons

[Freakshow]

I noticed he mentioned tyres, well had i had tyre like this.................. oh its the Dunlop channel.  still good post