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Clubroom => Bike Talk => Topic started by: 09.0 on January 27, 2012, 10:46:17 AM
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I'd like to see some more from the early seventies as I have some for the later seventies bikes. Specifically I want something to put on my 74 bikes instead of modern renthals etc. I can get them made up so if you have a cool one and are willing to send it to me, I will get it copied and will give you a couple for your trouble as well as your original back. Alternatively you can sell it to me also. Even a good pic of one would be a start on a bike in a photo you have.
By all means if you have a cool one from any era throw it up as I'm always interested in those kinds of things.
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I've got a cool JT Racing and a Fox one you can copy. ;D
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If I wanted to hear from an arse I would have farted!
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To be more specific I'm looking for aftermarket names from back then so I can put them on different bikes such as fox or dg .
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Hey brad ! i cant remember them being around in the early 70's ! more a 74'/75 ish on thing ? or just maybe my memory's a bit shot ! then again there was a lot of bloke's gettin' around with no choppers back then :D
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Ha ha. 74 is what I am aiming for. I suppose if guys can rattle off a few of the cooler period aftermarket names then I can try and find the logo and do it that way. I want one for my 74 Ossa and Maico basically.
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Hey brad ! i cant remember them being around in the early 70's ! more a 74'/75 ish on thing ? or just maybe my memory's a bit shot ! then again there was a lot of bloke's gettin' around with no choppers back then :D
I think you're right there. From memory the first pads just had bike brands.. Honda Suzuki etc then came dg fmf fox and so on
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I was worried it would be like that. Still feel free to post any cool ones. Was Yoko from the seventies or eighties?
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that was late seventies early eighties I think Brad - rememebr seeign YOKO nylons before they were officially sanctioned by ACU
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What you need is a 'DeBruizer' by Goldbelt, I'm thinking of getting a solid piece of rubber and turing down the grooves for handlebar clamp clearance to look like one.
I just bought off ebay a Goldbelt kidney belt in white/red/blue to match my JT gear, also picked up a 'DeVisor', a flush fitting (no studs visible) 5 stud peak :-D
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090 forget the seventies. it`s the evolution, pre 85 & pre 90 that have to run crossbar pads etc.
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090 forget the seventies. it`s the evolution, pre 85 & pre 90 that have to run crossbar pads etc.
you lost me there. I want to put one on cause I like them and wanted to put one on that looks period correct. My later 70 s and 80's bikes are sorted.
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Brad, a few girls back in the seventies that I new used bra pads, but I don't think I could get any off them now. In the eighties they went to silicone. I hope this of help. Does your wife know you are doing this?
Kevin
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090 the new rules say that those classes have to run them.
this could be an opening for the vmx magazine to make a crossbar pad with vmx mag on it in the manufactures colours.i would buy them.
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dont want to spear the thread off into space but i read the new Rule Book and noticed the change . . . can anyone shed light on why?
cheers
#87
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In the name of safety ole mate and common sense.
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Brad i am also looking for a Bra Pad for my kevlar avatar
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hey mate i have made a couple in small black and white checkerflag pattern then run them thru a laminating machine.rolled them roundsome foam tube and pop,d on some studs look good to and go on any bike.
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Brad i am also looking for a Bra Pad for my kevlar avatar
Bazza,
I have always been a (firm), believer that all female breasts should be free and unrestrained.
Kevin.
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KTMaico thank you for that pointer i do like to keep a breast of things
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hey mate i have made a couple in small black and white checkerflag pattern then run them thru a laminating machine.rolled them roundsome foam tube and pop,d on some studs look good to and go on any bike.
I don't mind that idea at all.
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In the name of safety ole mate and common sense.
Yeh . . . i get that . . but it seems that the new rule in the MA woodchuck manual is for some periods (evo, pre 85 and pre 90) but not all . . . . .
#87
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87 ... this is where common sense comes in - for sure the bike might look period without the bar pad and it looks like they are giving us a choice :o . But for it's all about safety and trying to go home in the same condition you arrived in.
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Hi Oldfart, hope your 2012 has begun well, at 43 years young and having left bits of myself behind at all sorts of race tracks over the last 26 years I am all for both common sense AND going home in one piece, just that i am getting jack of the woodchuck manual growing rules every year to cater either for people that lack common sense or have a personal barrow to push . . . This is probably a case of the former.
Stooooooopid example but I can see someone questioning the padding density or thickness. This shit does go on.
In my opinion the MA woodchuck manual needs an "All Disciplines" chapter for off road machinery. As common sense says that any off roader be it MX, SX, Enduro, Dirt Track, trials, modern, vintage or something in between should have a crossbar pad (or similar). I feel that it would be a smart thing to standardise saftey based rules across all classes and eras.
A 1977 YZ250D built to the rule book is not eligible for the evo class
Ladies and Gentlemen, I dont really give 2.635 flying rats bums about this rule in itself, I am simply using this little addition to the rule book as a case in point. I just think the application of a whole lot of "uncommon" commons sense rather than just a bit of common sense scatter around here and there is the way to go...
The older i get the simpler i seem to like things
Cheers all
#87
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I'm not all that happy about being told that I need to fit bar pads to my bikes, I've been riding for 50 years and don't recall the cross bar ever doing any damage to my person. But if I'm to be forced to use them on my bikes I want something that fits the period so I've been picking up a few Gold Belt 'DeBruzer' 70's style pads. They're not too common but at least they fit into the period feel of what I'm trying to achieve with my bikes.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/debruzer.jpg)
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/CrossbarPadDebruzzerIIRed.jpg)
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While we're on the subject, would I need to fit a bar pad to my Gary Jones bars? It seems a bit unnecessary.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/HindallDT1020.jpg)
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I've not paid any attention to modern bikes with fatbars but I know that trials bike have pads over the clamps, if you do need to run something then that could be the easiest thing to find
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number 87 you touched on "all disciplines" forgot to check that in the moms and it looks like we have to fit a chain guard to prevent trapping between the lower drive chain.most motocrosser would run a chain guide but most dirtrackers remove them.thank darryl beattie
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thank darryl beattie
What Beattie got to do with it ???
#87
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Chopped his toes off when his foot went into the chain
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Stuck he's foot in the front sprocket and lost a couple of toes.....road racing.
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With respect he must have forking small feet , was he wearing carpet slippers ???
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His foot got jammed in the rear sprocket of the factory 500 Yamaha...
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I think it was a 500 Suzuki. Beattie didn't ride for Yamaha... but whatever the brand it must have hurt like blazes!!!
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Beattie spent a year on the Kenny Roberts Yamaha team after Honda and before Suzuki..
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His foot got jammed in the rear sprocket of the factory 500 Yamaha...
Makes more sense :) still dont understand WTF they insist on front spocket covers though ???
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Bill, can you think back to Taupo meet last year when a young bloke took his finger off because he had no chain guard ::) story goes he reached down with his hand to put it into gear while the motor was running .....the rest is history.
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Fair call Stu ;) but i think that young fella and his old man would tell yer that was a case of stupidity , brain fade , blonde moment whatever ::)
Should we cover our spokes ala speedway rears or run muffler extentions into the sky so we cant stand there and breath in the carbon monoxide or entirly cover the ht lead and plug cap so we cant touch while motors running incase we get a belt . what about wrapping the entire exhaust in thermal wrap in case we touch it and burn ourselves , box stands should be outlawed due to potential back injuries lifting the bike on and off ;D
Somthings should be left to personal choice and common sense :) I think the fact that many older bikes had no sprocket covers fitted std is a reflection of a time when common sense was favoured over beuracracy ::)
Where else in the world are Front sprocket covers enforced ??? or is an Aussie only deal , like those wonderfull square numberboards of the 70s 80s ;D
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Seems to be an only Aussie deal. Maybe we should put bar pads over the front sprocket to get this thread back on track... :D
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Fair call ;D got your Farleigh entry in Brad ?
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No . I should but . Not that I don't want to go. I'd like to do the johnny old as well...
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The more I think about this bar pad thing the more it pisses me off. Sure, I can understand the need for a sprocket cover but putting a pissy bit of foam on the crossbar seems futile as nearly everyone wears full face helmets these days, negating what little protective application the pad offers. As I said in a previous post, I've been riding dirt bikes on and off (lately off ;D) for 40 plus years and can't recall one instance where the handlebar cross brace did any damage to my body. I've never ever used cross brace padding and see them purely as a fashion accessory for the bike...a place to display a logo or inject a bit of bling. ;). To me nothing looks sillier than a cross brace pad on a Cheney, Metisse or any other bike from an era when pads didn't exist. The book tells me that I need to use them so being the obedient servant to the sports rulemakers, I'll reluctantly mount mid 70's Gold Belt 'DeBruzer' pads as at least they 'kinda' fit into the 70's era vibe.
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ask jikovwhat its like too hit the unpadded cross brace,think he was off for 12mths with a split sternum.it was funny trying to make him laugh ;D
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Already have one on the sidecars cross brace *, what about the other three or four metres of grab rail and hand hold tubing ??? :D
# Not me ! Somebody unknown put it on there years ago at a Ravenswood meeting ???