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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: smed on April 07, 2014, 04:48:27 pm
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Who was the rider?,I think I know but could be wrong :)
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Geoff Udy ??
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Not fat enough ;D ;D ;D
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Beetle Bailey..
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Can you imagine the earth shake as the big DR flat lands!
Who remembers the XL500s doing a mono through the office building?
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Beetle Bailey..
That's who I'm think'n ;)
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Bailey I think, I remember it but didn't see it often.
The DR's were Ok but the Honda's seemed to be better.
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Can you imagine the earth shake as the big DR flat lands!
Who remembers the XL500s doing a mono through the office building?
Yeah the XL monoing through the office was a cool ad alright 8)
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I have the lucky job of turning one of them into a Motocrosser at the moment for the Nat's....god forbid any one in front of her when she tries to stop......there will be carnage everywhere....LOL.
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definatly beetle,have the whole add on a suzuki promo video
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Yep Beetle for sure. Even funnier, last time I rode with him was about 15 years ago and he was RIDING A DR! Smoked most blokes on the ride too!!! GUN rider and a nice bloke too.
Kt.
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On the Honda advert mono in the office was it a XL 250 saying The Wildest Trail Bike to Hit The Streets was that for the red 1979 models , is that ad on youtube any where , who knows more on that ad, I used to love seeing it. Remember I think a cleaning lady had to get out of the way as the bike went down the stairs. :)
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I guess it could have been a 250, i remember the mono between the desks and down the stairs...
would love to see it on youtube, i have looked for it before and not found it.
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Pretty sure it was the XL250....the 500 would of spat the carpet out all over the office ;D
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I was about 8 years old back then, my cousins boyfriend had a XL185 at the time, we thought it was such a hot bike, now we realise that the kid who was ripping around the street on a YZ80D probably had about the same power at the rear wheel and half the weight..
-That Perception for you eh!
Brett
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I guess it could have been a 250, i remember the mono between the desks and down the stairs...
would love to see it on youtube, i have looked for it before and not found it.
It was an XL250S as a mate of mine did the ad. He was a trials rider from Wollongong but I think he got the gig through connections his wife had with Bennett Honda.
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It was an XL250S as a mate of mine did the ad. He was a trials rider from Wollongong but I think he got the gig through connections his wife had with Bennett Honda.
I've not seen the ad , would you be able to source a copy somewhere?
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He works up in Brisbane now - I'll try and get in touch with him.
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I remember seeing that advert at the pictures before the start of a movie ( made me want to mono my 1979 yz80 everywhere) . From memory it was a 1978 xl250s , because all the young louts around town ended up buying these xl,s instead of cars and causing havoc by mono-ing everywhere.The add was a definite success,(probably what the yamaha wr250 advert of a few years ago was based on) being screened continuously on TV CWN-8 orange at the time.
Maybe the ad can be found at the film & TV archive in Canberra or the Prime TV archive......
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because all the young louts around town ended up buying these xl,s instead of cars and
causing havoc by mono-ing everywhere.
Great bikes for the job were those old XLs' 8) ;D
Regards,
Steve
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Yeah, the old XL's were great for doing big wheelies on because the swingarms are so short. They weren't too bad in the bush either once they had knobbies and decent rear shocks on them.
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The year Beetle won the Melanisia 2000 in Hervey Bay he had a DR250 with him which he was rideing around town, he came out to the track for a look during the week before the race and did a lap or two and the first time around cleared the quads down the back on the old clunker he was certanly a class act and a funny bugger to boot