We take you behind closed doors to show you the top secret areas in the motorcycle speed and machine shop of Top Fuel Motorcycle world record holder and legend Larry “Spiderman” McBride, Cycle Specialist in Newport News, Va. We will see some of McBride’s world record Top Fuel Bike runs in the NHRA, get a good look at his shop and tools, including shaping, boring and honing machines, enter his top secret cylinder head area, get a look at all of his memorabilia and photos featuring his friends and drag racing legends, get a look at the Cycledrag 1977 KZ 1000 we restored in this shop, explain what all-time great Elmer Trett meant, talk about the work McBride did on Legend Car engines, see some Top Fuel Motorcycle drag racing gone wrong, including a nitro bike explosion, talk about a problem McBride had with his Top Fuel motorcycle at the NHRA Chicago race, and we discuss current events in drag bike racing including Chris Moore’s first five-second no bar pass on his turbo street bike, the health of the Pro Street motorcycle drag racing class, what happened to the Top Fuel Harleys in the NHRA, riding young motorcycle drag Ravi g stars including Chase Van Sant, Gaige Herrera, Brayden Davis, Trevor Schnitz and others, talk about the future of Top Fuel Bike in the NHRA and a whole lot more. We ask McBride if he would ever bring back his motorcycle “Blue”, which ran the first five-second pass back in 1999. We will see some of Larry “Spiderman” McBride and Dave Vantine’s top moments from the NHRA and we even watch as McBride does an oil change on his race hauler. Enjoy this inside look at Larry “Spiderman” McBride’s race shop, machines and Top Fuel Motorcycle operation.
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Hey Jack has he got any pictures of the old Vance and Hines fuel motorcycle that they bought
He's awesome, legendary! Great job Jack
Tell him if he builds the museum I want to be the first one thru the door
Great Interview! Like to see the process of building one of those Chassis.
One of your best videos, godammit !! More like this
Jack, how do I get a sticker?!
So terrific to watch this ……………………..
Great knowledge,innovative engineering,superb design, excellent performance and a classy gentleman. That’s a real winner Spiderman !
Larry and Steve are the stuff of legend. They are beyond words.
Dartmouth Nova Scotia Canada
Pascougla mississippi
Larry is such a class act. Thanks for another great interview, Jack!
As always Jack is by far the Best at bringing us motorcycle drag racing. The man is non stop like the energizer bunny !! Thank you for the shop tour of Larry’s place and all the behind the scenes work !!!
If you don't get kids to carry the torch . The knowledge will be lost .
Larry has been one of my favorite riders for many years. Heart of Gold ,
I like grudge racing in all shapes and forms and I like all forms of drag racing but I wished they kept the clocks on as well for the fans and they need to hold just grudge racing events and let the driver's or riders decide on whether or not if they wanted the clocks on for their race and 90k is a big payout for a non No Prep race because as far as I've seen the highest payouts in all of drag racing is in No Prep racing especially in small tire in the south and I've seen 150k and up payouts for their races but I wished that other than the big 3 classes in NHRA payed the winners more so they could race more races similar to what the Spiderman was talking about towards the end of the video
AWESOME job Jack, Larry is a CLASS GUY!! His whole team makes TF Cycle something super SPECIAL! NOTHING is sweeter to my ears than his TFC starting up and doing a run!! Thanks to all!!
Jack is that an Australian gold xmas tree in Larry's office at 22:27? It looks identical to mine.
Great video jack ! I would love to visit and help them one day
Watching from Olean, NY. I visited wit Puppet frequently in Buffalo and also became friends with Jim McClure.
Awesome Guy.