Black and white photo from the Distinguised Gentlemans Ride 2022, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Finnish GP 1968
Finnish GP 1968
Agostini MV Agusta (No. 1) and Kiisa S-565 Vostok-4 (No. 11).
It was…. in 1968 when Vostoks were next seen at international races in Finland with a 500cc “S-565″, which in its design resembled a 350cc model, while it had a more sturdy chassis and 3 valves were put into each cylinder (2 intake, 1 exhaust). Kiisa was leading in the race for the whole lap when Giacomo Agostini took over and Kiisa came off track interrupted.
Eyewitness account: “I was at the Finnish GP in 1968, and saw and heard! the Vostok. It made tremendous noise and was fast. If it had been piloted by a top-notch rider, Ago would have been pressed hard”. – pkr2000dk
sources: USSR Sportsbikes, Ants Kikerpuu, bCozz archives
IMZ-Ural 2022 and beyond | Field Notes with Ilya Khait
Vostok 4-cylinder
Vostok four-cylinder developed by the Soviet Union to take on MV Augusta. Test stands showed more horsepower.
See main article: Vostok – an Unsolved Crime
Holodomor
The Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р, romanized: Holodomor, IPA: [ɦolodoˈmɔr];[2] derived from морити голодом, moryty holodom, ‘to kill by starvation’)
Awfull story from the past ! Caused when a dictator wanted both to replace Ukraine’s small farms with state-run collectives and punish independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to his totalitarian authority.
Trevor Colledge Memorial
Still missed but not forgotten.
Historical Photos
The golden age of motocross
Rider: N. Sevostyanov
source: Vadim Suvorov
Мотоспорт СССР и России
(Motorsport of the USSR and Russia)
Valery Pavlovich Chkalov
Valery Pavlovich Chkalov (20/01/1904 – 15/12/1938). Sadly he died at a young age.
He was a Soviet test pilot, brigade commander, Hero of the Soviet Union.
The crew commander of the aircraft that made the first non-stop flight over the North Pole from Moscow to America in 1937.
He was an honoured Motorsport referee and keen motorcyclist.
A year after his death during the testing of a new fighter plane, in December 1939, the first Chkalovsky motocross race took place, named in his honour and memory.
Still riding at 80
retrieved from the archives.
Original article translate by Eugene R. Maybe one day we can find time to restore it here, again.
PW
Hi!
Can i have password for the b-cozz.com site password protected parts? I’m searching for information about the K750 motorcycles, any information is useful. In my my country, we need to make a technical description, if we want to put this old bike to road again.
Thanks.
Tibor Kovacs