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Clubroom => Bike Talk => Topic started by: Tahitian_Red on November 23, 2013, 07:45:22 am

Title: 1980 Open Class Shootout?
Post by: Tahitian_Red on November 23, 2013, 07:45:22 am

Anyone have a 1980 Open Class shootout article from any of the major magazines?  Know the winner?

Title: Re: 1980 Open Class Shootout?
Post by: bishboy on November 23, 2013, 09:34:52 am

I'll have to have a look, but I don't think I have.

I imagine that the YZ would have won, the competition was a bit ordinary in 1980, in '81 it would have been a different matter.

Title: Re: 1980 Open Class Shootout?
Post by: Husky500evo on November 23, 2013, 09:35:43 am

I would like to read a shootout like that as well, so I will have to look through my magazine stash. I would expect though, even though the Yamaha is my least favourite Jap MXer (mainly due to  nightmares of experiences with the dreaded Yamahop rear suspension), that the YZ465G would come out as a clear cut winner. It was  not a good year for Maico and the Husky 390 was down on power in comparison and a bit outdated by then. The RM400T  had very little changes from the '79 model and Honda didn't even have a big bore. The dark horse could be something a bit rarer, like the Can AM 400 MX6. 

Title: Re: 1980 Open Class Shootout?
Post by: KTM47 on November 23, 2013, 10:27:59 am

I don't know who won in 1980, but I do know who won 1981. Maico first daylight second.

Forget the rest Maicos are best.

Title: Re: 1980 Open Class Shootout?
Post by: TM BILL on November 23, 2013, 10:35:50 am

Quote from: KTM47 on November 23, 2013, 10:27:59 am

I don't know who won in 1980, but I do know who won 1981. Maico first daylight second.

Forget the rest Maicos are best.

Good clubman bikes but won nothing of significance , Geoff Mayes  won the British open title in 1980 on one of those horrible looking1980 440s