The Rainey Days

[Fleegle]

On ITV4 now

[roboxm3]

Those Marlboro Yams were lovely looking things!! I love the vented fairing...

[mitzy]

Loving the music in this programme

Fleegle just explained why they all keep falling off re the power delivery

[PearcyK5]

That double highside from Doohan and Chili was incredible

Those bikes look ridiculously hard to ride, it's like they're always on a knife edge

[mitzy]

Frankie has BN leathers !!

[tight5]

Rainey , the real goat .

[GTIR]

schwantz looks about 70 now!

Eta right name!

Edited by GTIR on Wednesday 23 April 21:57

[mitzy]

Jesus!



Real men this lot


Ouch

[CBR JGWRR]

PearcyK5 said:

That double highside from Doohan and Chili was incredible

Those bikes look ridiculously hard to ride, it's like they're always on a knife edge

Synchronised highsides. Ouch. And yes, they truly were evil bds who only thought of attempting to kill you...

[theshrew]

mitzy said:

Loving the music in this programme

Fleegle just explained why they all keep falling off re the power delivery

Vanilla Ice - wasn't he into bikes ? Would love to see his helmet hair.

Good program thanks for posting Fleegle wish they had more stuff like this on TV

[LoonR1]

That's my Friday night viewing when I get hime for the weekend. Loved those years and the bikes were just unbelievably impossible to ride.

[y2blade]

I recorded it, will watch tonight

[Rat_Fink_67]

Really enjoyed this; 2 strokes, highsides, hard bds and fag packet paintjobs...proper! Given the ending it looks like there will be a part 3 covering the Doohan years too, keep 'em coming ITV4!!

[sprinter1050]

Excellent show featuring excellent bikes with excellent riders in excellent times.
A shade less "corporate" mentality around then-though not as little as in the 60s/70s

[MrKipling43]

That was great. It is surpising how uncomfortable wincing becomes after 40 minutes.

Rainey is a true legend - real formative years stuff. I was eight when he won his first title, so he was practically a superhero to me.

[rev-erend]

Fantastic program .. enjoyed it.

Can't believe road bikes now have more power than those GP bikes.

[LoonR1]

rev-erend said:

Fantastic program .. enjoyed it.

Can't believe road bikes now have more power than those GP bikes.

Ah but it's spread through a 15k rev range not delivered in one big dollop between 13000 and 13500 rpm.

[MrKipling43]

LoonR1 said:

rev-erend said:

Fantastic program .. enjoyed it.

Can't believe road bikes now have more power than those GP bikes.

Ah but it's spread through a 15k rev range not delivered in one big dollop between 13000 and 13500 rpm.

And a road bike doesn't weigh 120kg wet.

[rev-erend]

MrKipling43 said:

LoonR1 said:

rev-erend said:

Fantastic program .. enjoyed it.

Can't believe road bikes now have more power than those GP bikes.

Ah but it's spread through a 15k rev range not delivered in one big dollop between 13000 and 13500 rpm.

And a road bike doesn't weigh 120kg wet.

Funny - I was thinking what would Mr Rainey say if he rode my HP4 ..

Probably how heavy it is

[smifffymoto]

Really enjoyed that,funny how "the unrideables 2" kept flashing on the screen.I wonder why?