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Marque Remarks => Yamaha => Topic started by: jimg1au on August 25, 2012, 04:24:42 pm

Title: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: jimg1au on August 25, 2012, 04:24:42 pm

any one had or ridden one off these.know were there is a frame as all yamaha stuff will bolt on to make the bike
jim

Title: Re: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: cloggy on August 25, 2012, 11:19:46 pm

 I've got a mark 4

Title: Re: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: TT5 Matt on August 25, 2012, 11:34:19 pm

wat model was the dick mann tt500 in two wheels back in the day ???that looked nice

Title: Re: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: cloggy on August 26, 2012, 02:23:06 am

 There were 4 marks for the XT/TT engine and two other frame kits for the SP/DR370 and XL/XR500

Title: Re: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: jimg1au on August 26, 2012, 06:26:07 am

cloggy
what is the mk4 like to ride and what are the differences from mk1

Title: Re: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: cloggy on August 26, 2012, 07:01:25 am

  It's low, all the Manns seem to be. The swingarm is much more complicated and I think longer, the  bike is long. It's better handling than even my KLX, it's just very intuitive and surefooted. I couldn't really imagine anything handling better, but I'm not much of a rider. The rear shocks are bit soft though. The mark 4 was made between 81 and 2, less than 20. One other surfaced on ebay about 18 months ago, but the frame has been altered. I recognized  it  due the swingarm
 All the Manns are non metric on the bolts.
http://www.lt-racing.com/html/dms_tt500_yamaha.html   is pretty much the only source of info and it hasn't been updated for a while. Dick Mann told me mine is a mark 4 but the website states only 3 marks were made. I think there were over a 100 of the mark 1s
 Mann had tanks made from mark 2 onwards but the tanks change slightly with each mark. They are really rare, Mudmantra in northern California has a mark 2 with tank and is a moderator on http://odinxt500.freeforums.org/technical-section-t553.html,  on that site hardly anyone apart from Mud rides offroad

Title: Re: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: Doggy Digger on August 26, 2012, 08:40:53 am

Richard Mann would be a wretched name to have Downunder ...

Title: Re: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: Stan S on August 26, 2012, 09:47:24 am

Quote from: Doggy Digger on August 26, 2012, 08:40:53 am

Richard Mann would be a wretched name to have Downunder ...

Doesn't seem to worry Dennis much ;D

Stan

Title: Re: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: cloggy on August 26, 2012, 04:55:12 pm

 It's no way as bad as Dogging Digger

Title: Re: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: big mac on August 26, 2012, 05:58:56 pm

There was a story on one of these in VMX mag can't say which one it was.

Title: Re: dick man tt500 mk1
Post by: cloggy on August 27, 2012, 08:13:54 am

 The early VMX article is on the website I mentioned, as is a 1976/7 DirtBike article
 A fairly recent VMX ran an article on a Honda version. Normal VMX, all bright and shiny, and in the living room.