I love to look at the early days of racing. When sudden and unexpected technologies coud turn the sport on it's head overnight. I love to watch the racers who did it because the thought of doing anything else was just impossible to them.
We miss a lot of that aspect in todays hyper media environment. I know the riders in the 21'st century are just as driven as the riders in the early 20'th but I think we miss a lot of that in all trhe "packaging". Anyway I like to see theold videos and learn who's shoulders todays riders are standing on. It's a good idea to check your foundaton once in a while.
On that note I was delighted to find an e-mail from Mr Bill Thomas directing me to this video. It's not one of the typical "early days and high sides" old school videos that we see a lot of. It's actually a professionally produced documentary and while there is some good racing action, this is more about people and familes.
So this may not be you cup of tea but I just wanted to throw it on here anyway. Hope you enjoy it. Oh and thank you again to Mr Bill Thomas for the link.
Bill writes about the video:
His widow Janeen provides much of the commentary and there is a lot of footage from their home-movies. Extra commentary is provided by people like Chas Mortimer, Chris Dodds, Dieter Konig , Bruno Kneublher, Rod Tingate (Kim's mechanic), Mick Woolett, Phil Read,
Kork Ballington, etc.
If you enjoyed the clip there's a lot more HERE!
ATTENTION THIS BLOG WILL BE CLOSING SOON. I'm leaving this blog up till the end of the month. After that all posting will continue at my new site motorcyclephotooftheday.com . All content from this site has already been transferred to the new site and can be found there.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Konig Racer prize-winning documentary on Kim Newcombe, builder and racer of the Konig 500 GP bike.
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A MUST WATCH MOVIE ,ONE OF THE BEST, IF NOT THE BEST OF ITS KIND
ReplyDeleteWatched the dvd many times, an incredible achievement against the might of mv, what a tragedy to be killed after he had pointed out the danger at stowe corner.
ReplyDeletefurther to the comment l made above you might like these photos of a kim newcombe solo under construction and also a 750 konig sidecar outfit also under constuction.
ReplyDeletejeffsawyers@msn.com
http://s375.photobucket.com/albums/oo198/kitkatjeff/konig/