Remember this ad on the teev

[yamaico]

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.

[Simo63]

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?

[yamaico]

He works up in Brisbane now - I'll try and get in touch with him.

[ghostrider]

 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......

[b490]

     

      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'     
  Regards,
                Steve



 
 

[FourstrokeForever]

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.

[chrisdespo]

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