What Is This and What Would You Pay For It?

baldy110 wrote: If it is a true S1 it's worth well in the $20,000 range even its not running.

Ray916MN has it correct...if all the parts are there, then it should sell for more than $100,000.

Yup

I saw other photos of that S1. Looks like the rear of the frame was bent pretty bad from a huge crash back in the day. Wonder if the rider of that bike was named Russ Albrecht or something like that. He raced a S1 back then and suffered a huge crash on a S1. That bike disappeared into the woodwork after that crash.

As it sits it still worth a small fortune!!!!

Dr. Gamma wrote: I saw other photos of that S1. Looks like the rear of the frame was bent pretty bad from a huge crash back in the day. Wonder if the rider of that bike was named Russ Albrecht or something like that. He raced a S1 back then and suffered a huge crash on a S1. That bike disappeared into the woodwork after that crash.

As it sits it still worth a small fortune!!!!

Ah, Dr. Gamma...I remember that S1 also and the photos...if it is the same bike, that will impact the value (pun intended).

www.riderfiles.com/elkhart-lake-wera-aug-1984/

Russ Albrecht at Road America August 1984



and some other guy

bluej58 wrote: www.riderfiles.com/elkhart-lake-wera-aug-1984/

Russ Albrecht at Road America August 1984

and some other guy

I brought both of my Superbikes that weekend to Road America. The Superbike that I built was like 4 or 5 seconds a lap faster than my S1, plus it didn't go into a wobble through the Hurry Downs like an old '72 H2 triple. I raced my black KZ on Sunday that year!!! My Superbike just felt better around the whole track. On the S1, I was just waiting for the next time it would go into a heart stopping wobble!!!

Here's a photo of the other S1 that I know of that got wrecked. It happened while it was standing still when it got hit. I was standing in pit lane not too far away from where it happened at the Road America AMA race back in 1982. Some French-Canadian rider thought they said there was going to be TWO warmup laps before they would grid for the start of the heat race. All the other bikes were gridded and waiting for the green flag to drop, and here comes this fool flat out up the hill on the main straight. As he crested the top of the hill on his TZ750, he saw that everybody else was stopped. He hit the brakes as hard as he could, lost control of his bike, and all hell broke lose. His bike barely missed Roberto Pietri's (#88) leg by inches who was on the last row. It then missed the bikes and riders on the second to last row, and then it plowed into the back of the S1 you see pictured here!!!!! The impact blew the S1 and its rider like twenty or so feet straight up into the air!!!!

I was at that time standing next to Gene Romero, and we both looked at each other, and shook our heads in disbelief. I will never forget that sound as the two bikes hit each other. Unbelievably neither rider was seriously hurt. The AMA told the French-Canadian rider to pack up his $hit, and never come back. The fool never even apologized to the other rider for what he did.

Scratch one more S1!!!! The swing arm pivot bolt was pushed through the back of the cases till it hit the output shaft!!! That's how hard it got hit by the TZ750.

WOW, thats some impact...!!!

Crazy,
I was up there for those races on my not so super bike, good times