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K2-K6:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SEXNS44gk6s

For those that like this era of road racing this is a really good short film,  principally Agostini but so many other characters also.

Good footage of Phil Read on MV some great sound track too on surely one of the best looking bikes on the planet.

philward:
Great video - best looking and sounding bikes but so much slower than todays moto GP - still better though!

Spitfire:
Great video, those MV's were certainly special looking and sounding machines, I can remember going to the TT in 1970, we got off the boat and proceeded to Quarter Bridge where the road was closed for practice. As we stood there two MV's (3 cylinder) and two Bennelli's (fours) came thundering down from Bray Hill, I'd never heard anything like it it was fantastic, though the Honda six was probably the best sounding bike I have ever heard.

Cheers

Dennis

royhall:
Get yourselves along to the Classic TT week after next to see these bikes running in the flesh. Superb, but take your ear plugs as the MV four is louder than the end of the world.

Spitfire:
I would love to go to the Classic but it's got that expensive that it is a non starter, the days of strapping a tent and sleeping bag to the back seat of my old A65 and setting off for a week at the TT are long gone. We used to do the TT and Manx every year from 1970 to 1978, the later was our honeymoon ! Nothing to do with a Certain Mike Hailwood of course.
The last time I heard an MV four was at Brands in around 1974 when a gaggle of us all on CB750's went down to Brands for the day to watch the racing, that was a pretty good trip from where we live on the Wirral.

Cheers

Dennis

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