Gadson back in da day videos(600SS and all)

[Rickey Gadson]

Back in the day, this was the man..........BOB CARPENTER

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrpF-7Kw_wo"]YouTube- Bob carpenter 1986.avi[/ame]

[Rickey Gadson]

Anybody remember MR SPEED......Tommy Bolton

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-4FWiJGiI"]YouTube- Tommy Bolton 1986.avi[/ame]

[benzx7r]

nice, thanks for taking us bike. wish that still had that 600ss class.

[onefastzx11man]

This is like watching espn classic for motorcycles!

[Rickey Gadson]

what you are about to see is the first official 9 second STOCK WHEELBASE,stock displacement motorcycle in the world at the time.
My 85 GS1150 Suzuki which held the AA/S record with stock exhaust first, went even deeper in the ('s when I put this Carpenter VAZZAR sidewinder.
We made so much money from here to Daytona Beach Fla racing in the streets in the 80's with this motorcycle, I and it,became a famous duo.
This motorcycle ended up going 9.50's @ 142 with a 1200 cc Carpenter power plant, which was still stock wheelbase and flying back then.
Just ask anybody who was around back then about my 1150, except Franco who witness and made money off me losing in NY on 150th st.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOOcZVMKxjQ"]YouTube- My 9 sec 1150 1986.avi[/ame]

[Rickey Gadson]

Foot shifting and all! Just imagine if I new anything about setting up the bike like I know today.....(see soft front end and strutted back)


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[JSpin]

there's a lot of people that cant run 9.50's on a swb bike now! love it!

[AJZX6R]

****ing inspirational !

[Rickey Gadson]

Classic

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOJnw1TWMVo"]YouTube- Gadson GSXR1100 wheelie 1.avi[/ame]

[Rickey Gadson]

Here is some classic grudge racingfrom back in the day when we used to go to Daytona for bike week and get it on at Orlando speed world.
We had arguably the fastest no bar bike in the world.
Back then we would pick the bike up from Carpenter and gamble without even knowing how fast it was.
We raced by hp numbers, thinking no one could have more power than us, plus Carpenter was the 1st to make a big block fit in small block cylinders(or what appeared to be small block cylinders).

This motor and chassis was brand new and never tested!
The topper about this weekend was that I had just crashed on the street with my 1150 4 days earlier and had my cast removed after suffering a broken leg and 55 stitches in the knee.
But when my brother Skip set up a race against kenny williams and Black Cat, I went to the hospital ad demanded they put me in a removable soft cast so I could take it off to race against these guys.
So the videos you see is me riding and forgetting I had 55 stitches in my knee.
Riding solely off adrenaline to get that cash!!!
CAN I GET A WITNESS!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tItTJ9LKFE0"]YouTube- Daytona 1986- 6.avi[/ame]

[Rickey Gadson]

Here was our 1st run down the track(notice the leg is miraculously cured!!!

This the legendary "SUZY Q"

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY06Q6MgBQA"]YouTube- Daytona 1986- 4.avi[/ame]

[Rickey Gadson]

Don't laugh at the teknique either!!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqYfgHURQro"]YouTube- Daytona 1986 2.avi[/ame]

[Rickey Gadson]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwuDlR2jwTQ"]YouTube- Daytona 1986.avi[/ame]

[Rickey Gadson]

Here is who we where racing......boy was they in trouble.
Kenny Williams(NHRA Carbon fiber airbox Kenny)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuZ8t-FrdVA"]YouTube- Daytona 1986-3.avi[/ame]

[Rickey Gadson]

I dont know why this didnt post, but here is the pass that scared them off.

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