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Title: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: dave king on March 28, 2008, 12:03:51 am
DT would like to sell his 3 Word championship winning HRC RC 500s . They can be sold seperatly or as a lot . I believe you can find pics on www.motomagazine.co.uk     Priced at around £35k each . my number is 447767205198  happy to pass on any genuine enquiries.
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: dave king on March 28, 2008, 12:09:01 am
would be nice if Chris mallam could get some pics before they are sold for VMX mag   INCLUDING the 89 bike .
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: holeshot buddy on March 28, 2008, 12:14:10 am
wow unreal is he keeping one or is that all he has :o
they are a great piece of mx history hope they go to the right home ;D
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: dave king on March 28, 2008, 03:32:16 am
Thats all he has , and he wants to sell all 3.  Watch out For DT at The spanish GP at Bellpuig this april as he goes for his 5th world title{2nd world vets title}
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: 090 on March 28, 2008, 07:18:47 am
Wonder if  he accepts paypal?
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: All Things 414 on March 28, 2008, 10:18:11 am
If one of them has a good ignition I think Hoony might take one of them. Maybe two. Just in case..... :)
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: Tony T on March 28, 2008, 10:52:06 am
I can't help but wonder about the thought process that lead to the decision to sell what has been such an important part of his life.
If he simply needs the money, you can't argue with that, but if not, you'd simply put them aside and forget about them for a while and hope you changed your mind one day.
I took that advice from Firko with my KX and glad I did. It's now come back out from the bowels of the shed for some more attention.  ;D
Hope David doesn't ever regret this decision...................
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: paul on March 28, 2008, 11:17:06 am
 i think the price reflects how serious he takes those hondas, not many people can afford them  and he knows that ,but haveing said that if i was a rich collector and money was no option sure  id buy them just to have them in my lounge room  .(hey kid s move the slot car track  )  were haveing visitors from japan
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: NR555 on March 28, 2008, 01:14:48 pm
He was making plenty of bucks back in the day.  I still remember going to Hawkstone Park in 1986 and watching him drive through the pits in his Porsche. 

What a rider though.  I reckon he'd smoke most of the clowns racing the Aussie MX titles even today.  His laptimes on that jump infested track at the British GP last year were good enough to easily qualify for MX1...
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: magoo on March 28, 2008, 05:32:42 pm
I've just been (un)reliably informed thet Sir Bradalot is bringing them all to CD5. All he needs is a B Double to transport them all.
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: Hoony on March 28, 2008, 05:54:06 pm
i thought he may need a convoy of trucks.
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: paul on March 28, 2008, 06:00:38 pm
(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/ibop/pm_davidthorpe.jpg)
(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/ibop/809604726-0.jpg)
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: Tony T on March 28, 2008, 06:03:15 pm
As much as I hate to admit it, that era of Hondas were the worksiest (is that a word?) looking bikes out there.
The Euro ones even more so that the U.S. ones.
Thanks for that shot Paul.  ;D
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: mainline on March 28, 2008, 07:25:16 pm
God, how i drooled over pics of that bike in MXA. Unfortunately, I could never get over the fact Johnny O beat him on stockish CR125, so I've put my $35k into restoring one of them  ;D
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: VMX Andrew on March 28, 2008, 07:34:22 pm
jonny o beat him at the 1986 mx des nations didnt he....i think he flogged everyone and he was on a CR125....jean micheal bayle the frenchman done the same thing at the 1988 mx des nations,overtook our own jeff leisk on the last lap to claim 2nd outright and leisk was on a factory 500 honda....
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: mainline on March 28, 2008, 07:39:34 pm
He flogged everyone except Bailey & Johnson
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: magoo on March 28, 2008, 07:42:18 pm
And it weren't no stock CR125 either. In saying that, it was still the greatest ride in MX history I reckon.
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: mainline on March 28, 2008, 10:02:25 pm
well, production-based (they hid all the good bits where you couldn't see them)
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: dave king on March 29, 2008, 07:01:57 am
If anyone wants to see Jeff Leisk at the 1988 French MXDN on DVD drop me a e mail ,    Oh  and just to even out the yanks Vs Dave Thorpe  check this out , 1985 MXDN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UN4hGUQRlY
Its real funny how the yanks never look at this mxdn with rose tinted specs.    Dave thorpe was a 3 time 500cc world champ when the 500cc races were filled with legends, carlquvist, vimond,leisk,van der ven,geboers,jobe,liles,nicoll,whatley,malherbe etc.
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: dave king on March 29, 2008, 07:07:37 am
Apologies if this has been posted before,  The legendary cala beer at Namur in 88.http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=642ob2fz0mc
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: evo550 on March 29, 2008, 08:18:23 am
Let's not forget the awsome effort from Craig Dack at the '86 MX d n who came in as Dave Thorpe's shadow for fourth....another two laps and he would have had him for the podium.
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: dave king on March 29, 2008, 08:40:33 pm
i was lucky enough to watch dack many times as he was teamate at mitsui yamaha with kevin froud who lived up the road from me, i used to go up to matchams park in my lunch hour to watch the pros practicing and dack was a regular there.
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: squirtmoto on March 29, 2008, 08:46:53 pm
Contrary to all, I wish I was a millionaire right now ::)
I for one would grab the 85 Rc500 as this was the true "Factory Works" bike, hand built at a cost of around $100,000.00 pounds at the time. :P
I wonder if Rick might be interested. 8)

Andrew is right all the "Yanks" flogged-em at the MX Des Nations in 1986. Bailey went 1-1, Johnson 1-2 and Jonny 'O' 2-2 they easily won on production based bikes, while most Euro teams were using "works" bikes. Pretty cool eh!! ;D
I think Dackie had our best result in one of the motos he came home second 250cc
Title: Re: David Thorpes HRC 85/86/89 RC500s for sale
Post by: Graeme M on March 30, 2008, 10:10:24 am
These might be interesting too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X49vQK5wPNU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbtwPAki5wE