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Title: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: cheapracer on May 14, 2011, 02:35:28 am
Alarm bells rang when I saw this on German Ebay last night at $1000 Euro .... !!!

(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt289/mongrelexo/Hagon.jpg)

But today is a slightly different story .....

http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260781134887
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: TM BILL on May 14, 2011, 10:18:43 am
Who the fork is Vic Elford  ???
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: motomaniac on May 14, 2011, 10:26:03 am
Who the fork is Vic Elford  ???

you mean you don't know?
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: motomaniac on May 14, 2011, 10:27:52 am
16000 euro and counting
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: firko on May 14, 2011, 10:55:43 am
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Who the fork is Vic Elford
I think he may mean Vic Eastwood unless of course the LeMans great Vic Elford flirted with motocross between sports car races. ;D



Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: pancho on May 14, 2011, 11:49:50 am
Quick! Slides!, buy it for Nepean
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: pancho on May 14, 2011, 11:55:13 am
 Alternatively start a petition to centerlink to get them to buy it for ME!!!
 Cheers pancho.
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: bazza on May 14, 2011, 12:00:23 pm
makes the australian ones worth a few bob $
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: TM BILL on May 14, 2011, 12:16:05 pm
Who the fork is Vic Elford  ???

you mean you don't know?

Never heard of him ???

Now Vic Eastwood was a hero of mine back in the day and his son Mark was one of the few in Modern MX who will openly speak out against youthstream and that cocksucker luongo who is forking GP MX
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: firko on May 14, 2011, 12:36:01 pm
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makes the australian ones worth a few bob $
Here's AJ's Aussie owned Hagon. They're cobby looking things but they're definitely different and much lighter than they look.
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1062154/Hagon%20001.jpg)
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: LWC82PE on May 14, 2011, 12:40:07 pm
http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=7274.0

pics here
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: motomaniac on May 14, 2011, 12:43:33 pm
Who the fork is Vic Elford  ???

you mean you don't know?

Never heard of him ???

me neither :)
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: Slakewell on May 14, 2011, 01:47:43 pm
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makes the australian ones worth a few bob $
Here's AJ's Aussie owned Hagon. They're cobby looking things but they're definitely different and much lighter than they look.
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1062154/Hagon%20001.jpg)

Is there a bike that AJ dosent own?
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: firko on May 14, 2011, 02:45:28 pm
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Is there a bike that AJ dosent own?
It's getting that way Mick. The bugger can't help himself, he'll be debuting his new C&J Triumph 500 single at CD8 and last week alone he bought a NOS American Eagle/Sprite Fastback frame and a Van Tech roller. He just spent 500k extending the shed and house to make more room for bikes but he's got too many bikes again and definitely no more room to store them. ;D You won't find a keener and more generous collector/racer that Alan. He's more than obliging to let anyone have a ride on any of his bikes, even that old slut Black Betty. ;D
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: VMX247 on May 14, 2011, 03:02:44 pm
i do remember the Hagon Eastwood monoquoce Yams though .
 

are theses the same and any idea on numbers made up , back in the day TMBill ?
cheers A
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: motomaniac on May 14, 2011, 03:07:28 pm
i do remember the Hagon Eastwood monoquoce Yams though .
 

are theses the same and any idea on numbers made up , back in the day TMBill ?
cheers A

The Ebay seller says only six built ???
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: GD66 on May 14, 2011, 03:33:00 pm
Darrell Groat, from Moose Racing, Euroa, is the Hagon shocks distributor, but also races a Hagon Yamaha monocoque, in fact I think he's the current national champ in P5 500 : he also used to work assembling the things in the Hagon factory, so he'd be able to offer a clue re the numbers produced.

Website http://www.hagonoz.com.au/

Email HagonOz.com.au

 ;D I first spotted his bike when he slipped past me diving down through the esses in practice at the Southern Classic at Broadford a couple of years ago : I said, "Ooh, a Hagon !" and then bloody near missed the apex into the second ess... :D
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: VMX247 on May 14, 2011, 04:59:10 pm
I first spotted his bike when he slipped past me diving down through the esses in practice at the Southern Classic at Broadford a couple of years ago : I said, "Ooh, a Hagon !" and then bloody near missed the apex into the second ess... :D
same same - though HBBB Hagon Shock Tent  ;D  got pulled right out of there fast, as I was told we didnt have the right eye size  :'(  Nice stuff !!  :P  what I saw  :-\

Website http://www.hagonoz.com.au/
Email HagonOz.com.au

Done ,thanks A
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: cheapracer on May 14, 2011, 05:18:21 pm
Vic Eastwood sorry.

Vic Elford "Fast Vic" is one of the most famous racing car drivers of all time from the 60's and 70's and many consider him the most versatile drivers ever and a legend for his Factory Porsche driving.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Elford

I used to chat by email with Vic (Elford) so you may understand why I typed that in.
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: cheapracer on May 14, 2011, 05:23:01 pm

The Ebay seller says only six built ???

I read 32 from a period article.
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: pancho on May 14, 2011, 06:13:17 pm
 Tell us about the 500 single Triumph Firko, What engine is that?
 pancho
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: motomaniac on May 14, 2011, 06:53:26 pm

The Ebay seller says only six built ???

I read 32 from a period article.

yer 32 sounds more like it .Maybe the seller means 6 77 models which would have been the first year of production. They were made in 78 also I think and maybe 79
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: firko on May 14, 2011, 10:40:48 pm
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Tell us about the 500 single Triumph Firko, What engine is that?
I knew someone would ask...it's actually a B50 Beeza but after BSA went down the gurgler they sold the remaining stock as Triumph TR5's. Alans has a TR engine # and Triumph lettering on the cases but for all intended purposes it's a B50.
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: cheapracer on May 15, 2011, 02:49:50 am
yer 32 sounds more like it .Maybe the seller means 6 77 models which would have been the first year of production. They were made in 78 also I think and maybe 79

FWIW the Ebay one for sale I would think is a later one than the other Oz owned one pictured on page one. Note the upper rear shock mounts on the Oz one are of half moon shape whereas the Ebay one and every other one I've seen pictured has squarer shape with choice of 2 mounting position holes. An article I was reading on the original announcement of them showed Vic Eastwood showing a bike at it's release and it had the half moon mounts so from that I presume the Oz one is an early build.
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: firko on May 15, 2011, 07:08:49 am
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I presume the Oz one is an early build
It's think it's one of the first built in 1977 and the only one ever built as an enduro with a fatter tank.
Title: Re: Vic Elford Hagon Yamaha for $1000 !!
Post by: mainline on May 15, 2011, 07:56:04 am
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Who the fork is Vic Elford
I think he may mean Vic Eastwood unless of course the LeMans great Vic Elford flirted with motocross between sports car races. ;D

i read a great piece on Vic Elford in a sports car magazine a few years ago. They were talking about when the Porsche 917 was introduced and Elford was one if the drivers. The aerodynamics of the first cars were so stuffed that when they'd reach high speeds down the Mulsanne straight the view in the rear vision mirror would change to sky as the back end of the car lifted up.

Apparently a few of the cars came back with blown engines as the drivers figured this was the best way to get out of the deal ;D No telemetry back then, so hard to point the finger