Way back when.. - Ducati.ms

**SouthsideDuc** · Mar 17th, 2007, 9:12 am

When men were men, and GP bikes were 500cc two stroke sons of bitches that took real skill to ride and had to be push started.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxhOitbxNEg

Tony

Tigertex · Mar 17th, 2007, 4:20 pm

Awesome! For some reason I've never looked on youtube for this sort of footage.

Here's a great Rainey/Schwantz battle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UebLAg38CE

english

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glmiU0C-nHI

bevel450 · Mar 18th, 2007, 10:34 am

Great stuff !

dharhay · Mar 18th, 2007, 10:42 am

Very nice link to the old 500's. Sure wish that we can download those videos!

**SouthsideDuc** · Mar 18th, 2007, 1:26 pm

Yeah, I see the point of the four stroke MotoGP, but I miss the 500 two strokes of the past. I guarantee you that there is no way a WSBK rider would have been able to show up for one race and dominate the GP field on one of those bikes (a la Bayliss last year).

TZ250 · Mar 18th, 2007, 2:36 pm

Awesome video, those 2-stroke 500's were very demanding to ride. I recently read somewhere that without electronic controls, the new GP's would be virtually impossible to ride (might have been King Kenny who said that).