This tape has been laying at home for as long as I can remember. I think it's a promotion video from Honda which is called "Eddy Lejeune's incredible trials technics". The only reason I watch it is to hear the sound of the bike, it just amazing. I wish Honda would do a 360 conversion to the 4rt, I would buy it strait away.

Anyway for all the Honda madmen out there, here's the video:

Eddy's exhibition (it's 26mb but the server is fast)

A couple of questions for the gurus

When was it recorded? My guess is 1982, anyone knows?

In the begining of the clip there is a bike idling with blue stripes on the tank, is this a RS250?

Edited January 18, 200719 yr by Ludde

I had this tape when i was a lad, i remember being amazed at the things he was pulling off. I seem to remember him riding up a concrete step in a stream bed, awesome at the time!

I think it was earlier than 82 but only a by a couple of years. Must go in the loft when I go home again and dig out those betamax tapes!

Thanks for putting it up on here

Edited January 18, 200719 yr by Hughesy

Nice bit of trials nostalgia

Were those sections the same sort of level that would have been seen in World Trials in the early 80's?

I realise that videos and photos 'flatten' things on the screen and that the riders were on big/numb twinshocks etc. but (I'll probably get shot down in flames for this...) I reckon a good Clubby rider would be able to do all of that on a modern bike

What do you think?

PS

That bike sounded luvverly

I have the whole video but it's to big to upload so I took the best part.

I seem to remember him riding up a concrete step in a stream bed, awesome at the time!

You're right about the concrete step, it looks pretty big and I think it was when you where driving those old bikes

Thanks for posting!

Thanks for posting that ! I,ve been searching for some old footage like that, as i wondered what the pros were able to do with these machines back in the day. There's still hope for my skills on my tlr200.

but (I'll probably get shot down in flames for this...) I reckon a good Clubby rider would be able to do all of that on a modern bike blink.gif

Excellent video clip - world champion at work.

How well did 'kinell' do in lasat years world championship? - answers on a postcard...........

Obviously the sections are a little easier than todays championship - 25 years bike development is a lot, same as the 1960's sections were easier than the 80's sections.

But the best riders in the world compete in the championship & the best rider that year wins, could you have won if you were transported back 25 years on your latest Beta - be honest the answer would probably be no.

Edited January 18, 200719 yr by g4321

but (I'll probably get shot down in flames for this...) I reckon a good Clubby rider would be able to do all of that on a modern bike blink.gif

How well did 'kinell' do in lasat years world championship? - answers on a postcard...........

could you have won if you were transported back 25 years on your latest Beta - be honest the answer would probably be no.

First of all, I said a good Clubby rider. Nobody would be able to find a single post of mine where I have ever claimed to be any good at trials.

I bet there are loads of folk on TC that would look at those sections and think "Yep, I could do them on my modern Beta/Mont/Sherco etc." In fact, that was my point about a 'modern' bike on those sections.

No, I couldn't have won 25 years ago. Transport me and the bike back to 1957 and I might stand half a chance against the best back then.

PS

Was that a bite?

That four stroke Honda sure sounds sweet. I remember it very well.

This tape has been laying at home for as long as I can remember. I think it's a promotion video from Honda which is called "Eddy Lejeune's incredible trials technics". The only reason I watch it is to hear the sound of the bike, it just amazing. I wish Honda would do a 360 conversion to the 4rt, I would buy it strait away.

Anyway for all the Honda madmen out there, here's the video:

Eddy's exhibition (it's 26mb but the server is fast)

A couple of questions for the gurus

When was it recorded? My guess is 1982, anyone knows?

In the begining of the clip there is a bike idling with blue stripes on the tank, is this a RS250?

Hi The bike at the front in the opening scene,with the blue stripe is an RS200t ,

and they where certainly available in 1982.

Great clip

great video clip, that boy in the glasses could ride and he wasnt from silsden either!!

where are the other riders of the era now ??????

nice post ludde, Thanks

Hi The bike at the front in the opening scene,with the blue stripe is an RS200t ,

and they where certainly available in 1982.

Great clip

but certainly not rs200 cylinder & fins

Edited January 19, 200719 yr by tlrs

nice post ludde, Thanks

Hi The bike at the front in the opening scene,with the blue stripe is an RS200t ,

and they where certainly available in 1982.

Great clip

but certainly not rs200 cylinder & fins

Looks like a Kondo conversion,could be 220/240

I seem to remember him riding up a concrete step in a stream bed, awesome at the time!

Here's the clip on the concrete steps, the last one must be least 1.5 meters, which I think would still be pretty hard to clear for many of todays riders.

cheers ludde fantastic vid but could you but all of it on in small batches?? not sure how all this pc stuff works how big can a file be or how small does one have to be to upload to the site i am on the old side you see the new fangeld techy stuff is above me cheers anyway