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This month’s Youtube distractions, chosen by Hugo Wilson

Dirt: 50 years of Harley’s XR750

A half hour film about Harley’s all conquering XR750 flat-track race bike, using amazing archive footage and interviews with some of the riders and tuners that kept the bike winning for so long. The script is by Bike contributor and American oval racing fetishist Gary Inman. youtube.com/watch?v=363hrmypfcq

Roads: TT course tuition with Milky Quayle Produced for 2020’s online version on Motorcycle Live, this is a lap of the TT on board with Peter Hickman, but broken down into sections, and with commentary by excitable TT Course Liaison Officer Milky Quayle; he’s the guy who coaches Isle of Man newcomers. The level of detail required to lap the Mountain Course at speed is amazing. youtube.com/watch?v=rm9fa2cdnw0&feature=emb_logo

Adventure: girls riding on tea plantations Women wearing flip-flops and straw hats ride three-up on no-brand 125cc custom bikes, effortlessly negotiating the kind of terrain that’d scare me witless. And they’ve never been on an Offroad Skills course. youtube.com/watch?v=lxvo4-qgnag

How to: spray paint a Harley-davidson

A guy in a suburban garage in Minnesota fixes up a 2007 Harley (the ‘Salvage Davidson’) on the cheap. Useful tips about painting with rattle cans, made genius by the language and deadpan delivery. Learn about the coward pedal, the snorkeliser, the jabber pin and more. His other videos are about cars and are dangerously addictive. youtube.com/watch?v=nrnoivwzizq