The TRUTH About MotoAmerica and King Of The Baggers

Bagger racing is equivalent to watching a series where Buick LeSabres race Mercury Montegos. Good close racing, but the drivers can take their coffee along, to make it seem faster.

I'd like to see Honda's bagger allowed to race with Harely and Indian: the Goldwing F6B.

Bagger racing is fun to watch esp the Indian , Harley rivalry. Hope they have more races though

My 5' 7" dad rode an Indian in WWII in an Armored Division. He rode that bike from North Africa to Belgium through some of the worst weather and mud. Constantly shot at as he was a dispatcher delivering command messages to the front. After 4 years he had the physique of Bruce Lee where he looked small but, when he puffed up you thought he was a different person. When I was a kid he had promised he would buy his favorite bike of the time a Harley Electra Glide and we would go cross country. Unfortunately he passed away just after my 15th B-Day. He would have been 102 last week. I've always been a road racer myself so these baggers are a blast to watch.

I ride Japanese naked bikes. I’m not a cruiser/bagger guy yet I find KOTB to be a fascinating race series that I can follow and understand. The emerging theories and technology they showcase is there for all to see. As fantastic as MotoGP is, those guys are not even from planet Earth riding bikes that are technologically and mechanically unobtanium.

I want to see a BMW R1800 Bagger turned into a KOB racer.

Racing is racing. As a boy in the fifties and early sixties, if we had two Radio Flyers and a bit of a hill, it was on! Then it was Schwinn Stingrays in the canyon. Junior high and we were racing home on our Varsities. High school brought in air-cooled VW bugs and big bore kits, carbs, cams, and propped up engine lids. I was reintroduced to road racing and Moto America by Kyle Wyman's channel with his Ducati Panigale racing effort. Then they did the Bagger Racing as a sideshow. WTF! It's no more unusual to race baggers than to race a '65 Ford Galaxy 500. A lot of people can identify with bagger racing because they own a bagger. They couldn't sit on a sport bike. Well, not for long (even my '98 Honda VFR800FI gives my wrists and behind a bit of grief). Now, for a topic. How about the Build. Train. Race. series? Maybe bring on a third person, one of the racers, and talk about their experiences? This series you have going is the best! Very grateful!

Please include Peter Egan in these fantastic YouTube presentations

Top boxes, cup holders & sound systems should be mandatory.

I love hearing those big baggers strung out on the high banks at Daytona! Reminds me of when I was a young teen in Upstate NY and guys would meet late at night on the arterial thruway and set up drag races. Late at night when it was cool and the humid air was dense, those bikes would run great and sound beautiful. Sometimes you'd hear two of them take off and one would get off at the next exit, and one of them would just keep riding, leaving and you could hear that engine for miles and miles and miles. It was beautiful. I used to be able to tell the difference between Flatheads, Knuckleheads, Panheads and Shovels just by the sound. It was a beautiful thing.

Racing baggers are the NASCAR of motorcycles. but unlike NASCAR that doesn't even resemble nor represent the average car, the bagger class still identifies with the road going bikes . The challenge over the years will be to continue that representation of a road going motorcycle and still keep it entertaining and competitive to watch, and not just become the MotoGP of baggers.

I was at COTA for MotoGP this year. I met a guy who was there for the king of the baggers and knew nothing about MotoGP. He enjoyed both though. This is good!

NASCAR, as alienated most of its fans We are hungry for real racing. The ones who find the bagger racing Will watch.

Bagger racing is the equivalent to vintage NASCAR racing. You wouldn’t have guessed those massive cars were suitable for racing, but stock car racing was excellent marketing for selling cars on Monday.

Fascinating that neither Harley nor Indian offer a "Race Raplica" bagger.

When I was younger the first thing that caught my eye was motocross and along with every young lad in our neighborhood. Now that I'm older (67) touring motorcycles specifically a 2003 BMW R1200CL fairing, bags etc. have gained my interest and I like to play on the curvy roads every now and then. I remember picking up a Cycle magazine just before I purchased my new 1975 Kawasaki 750 H2 (triple 2-stroke) and reading it was like the bible. Thank you, Cycle World magazine, for the Magazines and now what you are giving us on You Tube!

I remember an old Honda commercial for their three wheelers. "After Honda built the world's first ATC, we built the second, and the first three wheeler race was on". Everything about life is a competition, that's why we race everything we create.

Battle of the Twins was my favorite class at Daytona. There were so many different bikes and International interest and participation was so strong. It was so much different from all the other races that were going on and of course it was cancelled. It should have been expanded to all the race venues. I tend to like the hooligan races more. There are more bikes than the 2 brands in the bagger races. They just need to get those other brands in the hooligans more competitive.

Back when the HD VR1000 was raced, the stands at AMA races were full of first time fans. It put butts in the bleachers . The butts had beards, vests, and chaps too ! Even I cheered for the HD. That was good for the sport as are the Baggers !

Guys, thank you for producing this video!! I have been reading Kevin Cameron since the early 80's. Awesome to watch him and hear him! like someone did comment below, bring Peter Egan too! Keep it coming PLEASE!