Maybe one of Roger's Ribi Link bikes?
Rick Johnsons 86' CR250.How about his 1986 500 Hoony?
David Baileys 1984 RC500 would look good in my collection ;DHere you go Smed:
To hell with your rules Slakewell, I'm going two.
Watercooled YZM500...not sure what year.....'80 odd.
Ron Lechein 1985 RC250...anyone got pics ??
I also like a lot of different works bike's from the 70's but would have to throw Gaston's RA-125 in :D
Rick Johnsons 86' CR250.How about his 1986 500 Hoony?
(http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu317/suzuki43/rj86500.jpg?t=1297240932)
or Baileys?
(http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu317/suzuki43/163178_187822494570128_100000271369351_657556_7331435_n.jpg?t=1297240932)
To hell with your rules Slakewell, I'm going two.Heres The Doggers 85 plus Buckwheat...
Watercooled YZM500...not sure what year.....'80 odd.
Ron Lechein 1985 RC250...anyone got pics ??
all of them ha
the yzm500 8)
and jobes 1986 sr500 mmmmmmmmmmmm nice :P
Ron Lechein 1985 RC250...anyone got pics ??
[Poor old Broc Glover had to try and compete against him on this old jigger....
I think you're right Geoff about Glover winning the title that year.[Poor old Broc Glover had to try and compete against him on this old jigger....
Comparing Brocs stocker to Baileys super trick RC you would think he would be outclassed but Broc & Bailey fought it out for most of the moto.
My memories fading but i think Broc may have even won that year?
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/Hangtown/Bailey-Glover-2.jpg)
Looking back on this thread it has become evident that a really special era in motocross died with the ama's production rule.The Euro's still seem to have trick bikes. This is a Euro bike that was at MXDN.
What do we get nowdays....exactly the same bike wrapped in either blue, red, green or yellow plastic.
My thoughts as well.
Any of the mid 80's Honda's would do it for me, they all oozed trickness
only one choice 3 valve HL ... defining moment in 4 stroke history
I love those exotic works bikes from the 80's and if I'd have to pick from them I'd go for Carla's alloy framed YZM500 Yamaha.The 1988 YZM500 Yamaha is as trick as it got before they changed the rules. I'd imagine if Yamaha had made a production version of this bike in 1990 motocross history would be very different.
Wow, custom decals. ::) ;D:-\ Yeah okay. Suspension was trick, billet everywhere. Heaps of trick stuff all over it. I can't remember any more but when we spoke to the mechanic there was quite a bit of unobtanium on it. Makes you wonder how trick/ factory can you go after thirty odd years of development.
Don't worry about it Brad..it's way over his head.Wow, custom decals. ::) ;D:-\ Yeah okay. Suspension was trick, billet everywhere. Heaps of trick stuff all over it. I can't remember any more but when we spoke to the mechanic there was quite a bit of unobtanium on it. Makes you wonder how trick/ factory can you go after thirty odd years of development.
Tricker than anything else. Ever.
(http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/3/11/13/f_CR86Thorpem_bc73971.jpg)
Tricker than anything else. Ever.
(http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/3/11/13/f_CR86Thorpem_bc73971.jpg)
Yep, and Jonny O'Mara went past it on a production CR125 like it wasn't even there!
Tricker than anything else. Ever.
(http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/3/11/13/f_CR86Thorpem_bc73971.jpg)
Yep, and Jonny O'Mara went past it on a production CR125 like it wasn't even there!
Thorpe had no back brake when Omara passed him ::) and on that track riding with no rear brake is some feat in itself (ever been to Maggiora it was a proper GP circuit with hills that would make your nose bleed just looking down them) . Great ride by the O show but his 125 wasn't exactly production ( des nations you didn't have to run to the bullshit Yank production rules )
(http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/icons/Dancing_Grenade3.gif)
No back brake?!, thats what i'd be saying too if I was the 500cc world champ that had just been flogged by a 125
I dont believe DT ever stated it publicly :P
Guys I love the debate,but the facts are quite clear, that the O'Show was riding Micky Dymonds 1986 CR125 production based USA works modified bike
Please refer to the following:
http://www.racerxonline.com/2010/09/23/the-untouchables-the-86-mxdn
Dont get all emotional William,Dave Thorpes legacy was not tarnished by his loss to O'mara.
Nothing to do with the bikes really, on that day iy was just shear determination on O'mara's behalf, similar to Hannah as he had only a little raw tralent but absolutley incredible determination.
Don't take offence bill I was only taking the piss. ;)
I'm a bit like monaro308,only works bikes I really know about are Greeves which put them on the world title lists back in the 60's.
The birth era of all big works bikes 8), then of course the only other decent works bikes after this era would have to go to Suzuki ;D
cheers A
ward's 1984 sr125 I mentioned earlier.Yes i recently saw and took a few pics of Wardy's works bikes in Troy Lee's showroom, I believe the Primms fell on hard times and sold up.
It was in the Primm museum but the website is gone now. I wonder if the museum is still going?
On the O'Mara/Thorpe thing, don't forget O'Mara beat absolutely everyone else on the planet as well, except Bailey, Johnson, and Malherbe (who wasn't there), and he was closing the gap on Bailey.
"My bike was as fast as anyone's on the downhills" said O'Mara. "Whatever I lost going up, I could more than make up for by outbraking into the corners and down the hills"
Jeff Wards bikes are now in Troy Lees Museum,I suspect the Primm museum is no more.....
Any works bike would do as long as it is air cooled and yellow with a big S on the left case.
OK, I was going to post the Marty Moates KSI bike which I consider a Factory bike of sorts, but that was trumped when Dick Tett brought out his "Factory" 2011 KSI version. But going with a Factory bike I would have to pick the YZM 400F from Yamaha. It was ultra trick, and started the resurrection of the Thumper Racer Revolution!
Great bike, shame that Yamaha cut the dollars back for the production models to come.
(http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p438/sscf_2008/YZM400FYamaha1024.jpg)
It's a nice machine, but it will go down in history as the bike that killed motocross as we know it.And it's the bike that introduced escalating maintenance costs, fragile engineering and progressive obsolesence. Yep, what a groundbreaking bike. And yes, I owned one.
A pic of the Works YZM500 aircooled powervalved jobie ( cable driven i think) from around 1983 ( was a promo poster in yamaha shops back then) ?(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-4/1252864/OW500%20air%20cooled.jpg)
It was the answer to the Husaberg and about damned time that the Japanese came around to get it right!
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-4/1252864/OW500%20air%20cooled.jpg)
A pic of the Works YZM500 aircooled powervalved jobie ( cable driven i think) from around 1983 ( was a promo poster in yamaha shops back then) ?(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-4/1252864/OW500%20air%20cooled.jpg)
Was this the one you were looking for , Hoony ?
If the current fourstrokes are that good, then level the playing field and let them compete directly with 2 strokes of the same capacity. But no, they are slower, heavier, more complicated, louder, more fragile and drastically more expensive to modify and maintain. Yep the benefits are just endless…
Maybe one of Roger's Ribi Link bikes?(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-4/1252864/Ribi%20front%20works%20Honda.JPG)
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-4/1252864/Honda%20HRC%20Eric%20Geboers.JPG)
Maybe one of Roger's Ribi Link bikes?Each to their own, but I think that this is one of the ugliest works bikes ever made (probably one of the most expensive to build as well). Looks like something from the "Transformers" movie. But except for the Ribi bike , I like the look of any Honda big bore works bike from about 1977 to 1989.
Well, where's the rest of the article?I don't know. I wouldn't mind reading it myself. I pinched this image from the CR500 rider's forum, but I think it originally came from an article in Motocross Action magazine .(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-4/1252864/Honda%20HRC%20Eric%20Geboers.JPG)
I am not sure if the Honda Ribi bike was used in competition (complicated looking isn't it ?). But I know that Roger DeCoster used what looked like a simpler version on his works Suzuki, before he moved to Honda (and maybe took the Ribi concept with him ?) Someone more knowlegeable than me might know the full story.Maybe one of Roger's Ribi Link bikes?Each to their own, but I think that this is one of the ugliest works bikes ever made (probably one of the most expensive to build as well). Looks like something from the "Transformers" movie. But except for the Ribi bike , I like the look of any Honda big bore works bike from about 1977 to 1989.
Did they seroiusly ever use it ... :o hate to do an endo and get wrapped up in that front end. :'(
cheers A
Decoster definately used the Ribi front end on his RN Suzuki when he was runner up to Gerrit Wolsink at the Carlsbad USGP in 1979.Thanks Doc..looks like they work too :o :o what an enviroment :o
http://au.video.yahoo.com/watch/4344494/11666245 (http://au.video.yahoo.com/watch/4344494/11666245)
I don't know. I wouldn't mind reading it myself. I pinched this image from the CR500 rider's forum, but I think it originally came from an article in Motocross Action magazine .
That's a really good article. As much as many folks think I'm buried in a pre 70 cocoon, I reckon the final serious era of the 500 class, the fabulous 80's was the golden era of motocross. To me and many of my comrades the sport has lost a lot of appeal since the 500 class was dropped and big bore 4 strokes were considered to be 250s. The flow on from that is the dumbing down of the World Motocross Championships, turning it into a second string series that nobody outside of Italy gives much of a shit about. If it wasn't on ESPN I wouldn't bother knowing who or what was winning.....come to think of it, I still don't give a toss. Twenty years ago I could rattle off the entire field of a 500GP, tell you what they rode and where they were from and even knew most of their mechanics names. Today I don't even know who the current champs are, let alone what they ride and I'm not alone.
While I think the day of the works bike is long gone and not feasible in todays financial climate, I'd like to see the traditional 125/250/500 divisions return and the GPs regain their status as our sports Holy Grail. Sadly, I don't think either of those dreams are ever going to happen.
Tough decision but it would have to be Mark Barnetts 1982 RA82 125.
(http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu317/suzuki43/bike1.jpg?t=1297239999)