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This month’s Youtube distractions, chosen by Mike Armitage rare Joey/robert Dunlop interview

Roads: Dunlop brothers’ TV interview Joey and Robert Dunlop interviewed in May 1998. Both are injured but talk about how they’ll be at the TT in a fortnight. The brothers are humble and amusing while watching Robert’s crash and talking TT, fear and mortality. Chatting to their parents and Robert’s wife in the audience makes it all the more fascinating.

Dirt: King Kenny and his TZ750

Kenny Roberts says his 1975 win on a Yam TZ750 flat tracker at the Indy Mile was his best-ever race. And in 2009 he rode the TZ again. He’d not been on a bike in a year, let alone one so wild it got banned, but with V. Rossi looking on Kenneth doesn’t hold back. Kenny Roberts Indy Mile (2009)

How to: make a V12 bike engine

Cutting up two Kawasaki Z1300s to make a V12 isn’t the sort of thing most of us do. But serial builder of mad bikes Allen Millyard makes it sound like a steady afternoon’s fettling. Makes for curiously addictive viewing.

Millyard Kawasaki Z2300 V12 motorcycle – how it is made

Superbike: glory days of BSB

Easy to look through a rose-tinted visor at old racing, but it’s hard not to be excited by these frantic Mallory shenanigans. Barging, win-or-bin overtakes, rude hand gestures, slip-sliding bikes, and all the names: Walker, Bayliss, Haydon, Emmett, Hodgson. Mega.

Youtube search: 1999 British Superbike Championship - rounds 17 & 18 Mallory Park