Harley-Davidson Daytona Bike Week 1978

did I say I've had enough of the snow did you hear me when I say it's time to go and did I tell you that the place for me is right below that old palm tree now you're saying you're coming too that's good to know looks like when they turn about so let's keep moving we are founder rolled into the Sun lightning strike in Napa yeah where they turn about in Harley Davidson hill in his sidekick in our styling department fella by the name of movie nets we're a little braver than I was we've drove the first day and a half in a snowstorm little ice along with it when I heard about the weather I grabbed an airplane flew to Roanoke Virginia and that was long enough for me but it's a hell of a good way to learn about a new model [Music] [Applause] my husband raced the first ten or twelve races here and that was in our younger years and we saw the God did find the bug you might say and every year afterwards we came because there is an excitement you don't overcome once you get here and so we come back every year we love it well how you doing where you from what you ride how you feed man how's your day what's your bike [Music] hey that's the way where freedom means two wheels and a Sun meet Amy of course the name of our club is Kentucky travelers motorcycle club to be a member you have to be first of all a married couple and and the club members have to own and operate a Harley dresser 74 I know how and good where you from [Music] glad you're here now you enjoy the Sun tell me where do you fix it where do you keep it well I won't ask where you're right where freedom means two wheels and the Sun midday yeah freedom means two wheels and a Sun midday following his date on a half mile wind red-hot factory HB rider Ted booty leads the Memorial Stadium short track field to turn one I swear like he's got a good start anyway yeah one more and it'll be the end of the week then we'll see how hot I was the whole time Moody's hottest competition Harley mounted rookie Lance Joe great yes red I mean our Luck's been super here y'all are long and they're away fine light a bullring style short-track action again a sellout at Memorial Stadium the field off turned to blistering the back stretch handlebars grazing the concrete wall chant buddy is moving on the leaders in his most competitive evolved form of racing booted masterfully slide the 250 Harley sideways on the treacherous black groove [Music] the last lap the crowd roaring its approval plants Jones and Ted booty will put harley-davidson and victory circle at the Daytona short track I don't forget bands you can see all the harley-davidson white that the big show at the Daytona Hilton [Music] [Applause] [Music] some improvements in the and the cylinders and cylinder planted the picker and there's a lot of detail things that have been done to you know coupe the overall engine actually those those improvements are going back into the 1200 as well well we feel that every one of those things my friend and I brought two girls down with us but I don't think we will next time can't believe what many there are [Music] good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome to Daytona International Speedway and the Superbike production boat racing championship we got a green motorcycle and a green pilot stacking together this is the new wave in AMA road racing the thunder of thousand CC street motorcycles specially modified for road racing and in this year's event their special interest in fight number 179 dogs and Georgia farm boy Dale singleton on an X LCR cafe racer Marky Harley Davidsons first assault on this growing class and loan and lean have you seen my machine [Music] - thunder power balloon searching for the open space I feel the wind against my face at last I've found that one place for me oh please that's free man look at all the scooters [Music] now look at me now is that Olli on that mean machine [Applause] now what have we here [Music] this is the place to be free [Music] though and long and lean [Music] have you seen my machine rider [Music] - thunder power balloon we're inside the high bank walls of Daytona International Speedway we're in the sandy infield that countdown is in its final seconds for the launch of the Daytona Supercross fingering that controls like concert violinist 40 of the best athletes in Motorsports depart the starting gate for a motocross drag race to turn one inside goes number 49 on the harley-davidson dawn killer Kowalski he's a Florida veteran a master of the treacherous sand that makes up this course the superstars are all here to fly for precious points at big bucks over a twisting turning two mile course studded with incredible man-made obstacles bike and rider take a brutal founding as kadal ski demonstrates his aggressive style and the handling capabilities of his machine these bikes are 200 pound thoroughbreds the riders high-paid pros who earn their living in a rugged business danke donkey and his Harley Davidson take the checkered flag here at the frame without for 30 search and overhead the front half of 1962 fair head I joined them together I got 1949 left case of 1951 right case with 1976 Burroughs rise and heads this is the 6th annual custom choppers we hold here in Daytona every year just the other night straight out of the sticks into the city lights are traded my truck for a couple of wheels on the ride a motorcycle just to see how it feels nobody ever told me about that bag lingo it's a whole new way of talking that you just got to know if you wanna ride a bike that is I've got to learn to speak motorcycle boy built a bike pretty cheap if most people are gaming of course to it I get five hundred thirty dollars into the whole bike thanks to friends that helped me build it they give me different horse in there to where joy [Music] they were talking about flatheads panheads knucklehead shovel handspring front ends and slicks and Here I am hanging out with brothers and dudes when all I ever knew before was Hicks but I don't know if I can ever catch on to this amusing confusing code called the bikers communication got a lowrider and a came off 57 three-wheeler frame customized 71 Shovelhead in last year dad the step state gonna share one with the shirt bucket no [ __ ] bar last year I ran tubes I'm running a dirty front-end this year last year I ran a pony I'm running on su this short on here is very important to harley-davidson because these guys are really creating some beautiful works of art and there are some ideas down here that we can use in our production motorcycles and I think it's very important for me to understand these riders that know what they're putting together Willie G Davidson is director of design for Harley Davidson Sue's and three or four cans are glide and they lost me completely when they started to speak about how good the damn thing about well I just don't know if I can ever catch on to this amusing confusing code call the bikers communication valadon boy but somebody please tell me what I'm supposed to do with a Z bar I don't know I won't ever kitchen honor this we're talking maybe I should get my truck back what do you mean I just puked my engine I could get messy on a warm sunny breezy afternoon we approach the start of the international lightweight 100-mile Road race good Brook it has it seemed for Bear Den Nixon's force team and stuff I don't know if he was guessing it but city worked pretty good in Jays a very cool and sensible person he adapts himself very easily either to dirt or road racing he just takes it as it comes it makes no difference to him really and it's fun for Jay to race veteran harley-davidson racing team manager dick O'Brien mentor of national champion number one Jay Springstein remembers another Daytona era bell on the old beats course of course a lot different than the day with the closed circuits we have easily it started daybreak in the morning or the tide coming in close you know and line everything up and down the beach you had two full miles of sand beach to run on the pit for all in the heaps and usually by 12 o'clock the tide would be out far enough to start lining the riders up a lot of people felt we lose a lot by going to the old beats course for Speedway we have a practice from 10 times larger than what it was back in those days around the 31 degree high banking speeds on these 250 cc bikes reaching 150 miles an hour Springsteen tucks into the drag [Music] we're going to a lot of concerns for the cruise for the riders there is only the track this international field among the best ever at Daytona the nine turn three point eight seven mile track that has hosted these races since fifty nine camel Pro Series champ Springsteen makes up a road race in experience with ability preparation a good bike and youthful enthusiasm this kid from Flint Michigan Jay Springstein continues the harley-davidson tradition winner of more Daytona races and more ama nationals than any other brand in history [Music] I enjoy I can't describe it everybody says the freedom kicking all that other funny stuff but I just like it you know I didn't know they made anything else Gary [ __ ] man bill see Carly Davis got me from Philadelphia down to here don't knock that's fine love it behind it make it great clear the streets let's clear the streets ladies and gentlemen move back please back through sidewalks let's make way for these thousands of bikes and the world's largest motorcycle parade until you've been [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] this is Dave Despain once again ladies and gentlemen enjoying with you this spectacular five-mile caravan of freedom and fun that captures the spirit of Daytona and the joy of riding a Harley Davidson looks like weird [Applause] [Music] we are founder to the Sun lightning strike in now yeah we're Daytona [Applause] and harley-davidson [Music] Oh to discern striking out in

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Keywords: Florida, motorcycles, Harley-Davidson, Willie G., Motorcycle Rally

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Length: 18min 49sec (1129 seconds)

Published: Thu May 03 2018