what do you think

[paul]

http://www.racebase.co.uk/item--Available-mid-March-Maico-Honda--RF3.html

[Desert Rat]

Looks good, but outside the spirit of vintage motocross........... in my opinion...........   

[mx250]

Looks good, but outside the spirit of vintage motocross........... in my opinion...........   

Not in England, in Europe and America 

[pirie593]

You could end up with this.  Excellent machine for the Twin Shock class.  Matt Milsom recently built it in the UK.

[mustanggrahame]

Wouldn't the engine have to come from an Evo Honda to be Evo eligible? If this was done then I guess there is no argument against it. I prefer to see bikes that you would have seen on the start line when the bikes were new. Obviously there wouldn't have been one of these. So on a personal level NO.
Cheers, Grahame

[Nathan S]

I agree with you, Grahame - but getting concencus on that is like asking Tony Abbott or Julia Gillard to stop being crap - it ain't gonna happen....

[KTMaico]

I have never been a fan of blending different makes of bikes, and as Graeme has stated I too look to see what I saw racing from the period. It stikes me that if you have a lot of bike bits lying around you could do this as a novelty, but you should not be allowed to race it in competition.

[supersenior 50]

With regard to blending of bikes---in the early days "blending" was commonplace. The first world title was won on a 7R AJS 350cc road race engine enlarged to 500 with BSA parts in a BSA based frame with Norton Roadholder [I think] forks. Nearly all the Hedlund, Monark, Lito, Husky etc were hybrids. Tribsas were the poor man's [or innovators] alternative to the expensive Goldstar, and led on to the Metisse. Forward to the 70s and on to the current vintage movement and take away the blends, [Metisse, Cheney, Hindle, C&J etc, then remove the japanese powered Maico, CZ, Husky chassis specials etc and you take a huge chunk out of our fields.
It's great to see correct, original production bikes, but there's a place for both.

[pirie593]

Let's not forget the pleasure a builder might get from engineering a bike that looks great and performs very well.  Some people like to look at bikes while others like to build them.

[head]

Well said. As long as parts are from the right era, there should be no problem.

[cheapracer]

Well said. As long as parts are from the right era, there should be no problem.

That's the one.

There were lots of modded and ratty looking bikes back pre '75 but you tend to only see the magazine pictured bikes up the pointy end which of course are mostly supported riders and the factories want those as stock looking as possible.

[JohnnyO]

It might not be legal here but it is in the UK Twinshock class and that's what it was built for.. horses for courses. Cool bike

[pancho]

Well said. As long as parts are from the right era, there should be no problem.

That's the one.

There were lots of modded and ratty looking bikes back pre '75 but you tend to only see the magazine pictured bikes up the pointy end which of course are mostly supported riders and the factories want those as stock looking as possible.
 
This is why I have a problem with the GTRs re sliders.
 Up till the time I raced regularly prior to lifes priorities [1973] there were quite a lot of variations in the slider scene.
 Twin cylinders, + OH cams, 4 valves etc, but still easily recogniseable as sliders.
 I recon these types of 'specials' should fit nicely into the scheme of things.
 [I have been back riding dirt again since the early nineties]
 cheers pancho.

[pancho]

 I dont know what I did to stuff up that, of course the bottom half of that is mine"