Listen in as eight-time world champion thrashes MV four-stroke
ANOTHER CRACKING BIT of vintage racing footage, this time featuring multiple motorcycle world champion Phil Read on the awesome-sounding MV Agusta 500-4.
The footage is from the 1974 movie 'The Iron Horse' made by Frenchman Pierre-William Glenn.
Read’s 1974 500cc World Championship victory was the last year a four-stroke won the world title before the advent of the MotoGP class in 2002. Giacomo Agostini won the crown from Yamaha in 1975, followed by Suzuki-mounted Barry Sheene in '76 and '77.
The footage is bloody good, considering the camera technology of the day.
