Bari Bari Densetsu

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Bari Bari Densetsu
Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Gun Koma
バリバリ伝説 (Baribari Densetsu)
Manga
Written by	Shuichi Shigeno
Published by	Kodansha
Imprint	Magazine KC
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	March 9, 1983 – July 17, 1991
Volumes	38
Original video animation
Bari Bari Densetsu Part I: Tsukuba Bari Bari Densetsu Part II: Suzuka
Directed by	Osamu Uemura (1) Yō Ikegami (2) Hisayuki Toriumi (supervision)
Produced by	Sōsaku Miki (1) Takao Igarashi (2) Ryōhei Suzuki Yuji Nunokawa
Written by	Yūji Watanabe Mami Watanabe (2)
Music by	Ichirō Nitta
Studio	Pierrot
Released	May 10, 1986 – December 16, 1986
Runtime	50 minutes (1) 54 minutes (2)
Episodes	2
Game
Publisher	Pony Canyon
Platform	FM-7
Released	August 1985
Game
Developer	Taito
Publisher	Taito
Platform	TurboGrafx-16
Released	November 29, 1989

Bari Bari Densetsu (Japanese: バリバリ伝説, Hepburn: Bari Bari Densetsu, lit. 'Vroom Vroom Legend') is a Japanese motorbike racing-themed manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1983 to 1991, with its chapters collected in 38 tankōbon volumes.

Earlier parts of the story focus both on high school life as well as street racing. At first the characters are illegal street racers (Japanese: hashiriya) that race on public roads, particularly on the winding mountain roads known as tōge. Those kind of racers were called "rolling-zoku", a type of bōsōzoku, and were seen as a social problem in Japan. Later parts of the story revolve around professional motorcycle racing events held on road circuits like the All Japan Road Race Championship.