Great motorcycle collectible. Listen to vintage motorcycle scramble sound effects or use the vintage motorcycle record album cover as a work of art. Frame and display!
Tracks:
Side One:
A1 Start Of First Five Lab Heat 0:51
A2 Sounds Of Shifting On Hill 2:35
A3 One Motorcycle (Expert Class) 0:30
A4 24 Motorcycles (Expert Class) 0:25
A5 Climbing 45 Degree Hill 1:10
A6 Class Two Amateur 2:15
A7 One Motorcycle (Amateur Class) 0:45
A8 Five Motorcycles 2:00
A9 Class Five Expert 0:55
A10 Drivers Talk 2:10
Side 2:
B1 Welcome To Scramble 1:20
B2 Class Five Expert 2:05
B3 Drivers Talking On Start Line 0:48
B4 Sound Of Many Motorcycles 2:25
B5 One Motorcycle 1:30
B6 Down 35 Degree Hill 1:45
B7 Passing Flat Ground Then Climbing Hill 1:35
B8 Back To Pit Area After Race 1:48
B9 Two Races, Six Seconds Apart 0:52
B10 Class Four Expert 0:37
If you think that ski slopes will henceforth be taken over by jackrabbits and woodchucks in the summertime, think again. They'll run from them the way a teenage ballplayer dodges his daily violin lesson. and ther's a reason. The slopes will be used for Motorcycle Scrambles. To put it another way, many motorcycle riders compete for points by racing their bikes over a five lap cours that takes them up the awesome slopes in apparent defiance of Newton's Law.
The participants are not the "wild ones" of Marlon Brando disposition; you won't find a black leather jacket in the bunch. Rather, they are respectable businessmen - of professional calling for the most part - doctors, lawyers, engineers, actors, and dentists. And all are members of the American Motorcycle Association which sanctions no less than 51,000 such events annually.
Why do they race? Well, for one thing, they seek the A.M.A.'s "Expert" label, a title bestowed only on those who amass 60 points at a scramble. For another, scrambling is a form of relaxation. As many riders told us, it's a way of escaping from the pressures of business and the office. But there are other less-easily defined motives for hugging the power of as many as 55 horses and propelling yourself five times around 8/10ths of a mile of rough terrain. Listen to the sound of this scramble. You may get the idea. And, to be fair about it, we issue this record with a warning: your life may never again be the same.
This "Study in High Fidelity Sound" captures a sense of an individual mated with power. The rider and his bike are an entity - perhaps more truly so than a man in a plane, boat or four-wheeled contrivance. Some of the sounds you'll hear are man-made: pit conversation and off-hand talk during the tense moments at the starting line fefore the starting flag goes down. But more meaningful is the superb and gutty sound of the well tuned motorcycle engine.
The engine speaks a language of its own. It growls with impatience at the starting line; the rider's right-hand on the throttle draws a series of angry statements from it. It heads for the slope and assaults it with a full-throttle cry of exaltation and release.
The tone-of-voice changes on the slope. The lighter bikes shift into lower gear and slower speed; heavier models labor upward in high. But always the voice is firm with power potential. Once over the top, the downward course over a 35-degree grade is run. The rider "shifts down" and the compression slows the forward motion with a pop-pop-pop-pop-ping of burning gas. In the riders' parlance, this is the "backing off" sound.
As in any sport, the participants have a jargon of their own. Sometimes, they're "airborne," an explicit enough term for leaving the ground. They often do. Being airborne, may or may not be deliberate. If a rider hits a rise that drops off sharply, he simply soars - sometimes as high as eight feet - to a safe, two-point landing.
A "full lock slip" is a turning maneuver and it's for experts only. Who else could sharply and fully reverse the direction of the front wheel - this way and that - to slip around a turn. "Full bore" describes covering the course with throttle fully open all the way. Listen to 24 bikes of the Expert Class assaulting the slope full-bore. The combined sound has the piercing roar of a jet plane.
The scramble recorded here took place at the Davos Ranch in Woodbridge, New York and was promoted by the Davos Motorcycle Club. As at all AMA sanctioned scrambles, a doctor and ambulance were standing by and all riders wore AMA approved helmets. The doctors, by the way, are rarely needed. The riders are there for a serious purpose and they pursue it with intelligence and skill.
This recording is unique. No one has ever attempted to record the excitement of a Motorcycle Scramble up a ski slope for the simple reason that Scrambles have previously been held on somewhat tamer terrain. If, in listening to it, you decide to forsake other modes of transportation for the motor-driven two-wheeled kind, we won't blame you. The rabbits and the wood chucks might complain but don't listen to their chatter. Just tighten your helmet, open the throttle, and head for the slopes full-bore.
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