Deltec mini's

[evo550]

I remember starting was always a scary deal, throttle and pull chord on the same side.... so left hand crossed over to grab the throttle, about half turn should do it, right hand down behind the leg and..pull.
If the clutch engaged before you had enough time to back off with your left hand all hell broke loose....especially if Dad had a few heavy stubbies and decided he knew best  flat on his arse.

[Canam370]

I remember starting was always a scary deal, throttle and pull chord on the same side.... so left hand crossed over to grab the throttle, about half turn should do it, right hand down behind the leg and..pull.
If the clutch engaged before you had enough time to back off with your left hand all hell broke loose....especially if Dad had a few heavy stubbies and decided he knew best  flat on his arse.

.........sounds just like starting my Rokons   So nice that things have moved ahead for me

[Rookie#1]

I am going to the coaters tomorrow to pick my Rockhopper frame thats waiting for me looking all lovely and bright red again  Should't take all that long to put it all back together. I'll post up some pics when im done

[JohnnyO]

I am going to the coaters tomorrow to pick my Rockhopper frame thats waiting for me looking all lovely and bright red again  Should't take all that long to put it all back together. I'll post up some pics when im done

The Rockhoppers and Grassgrubs were candy apple red and candy apple green.. can powder coaters do those colours?

[BETRIC]

The Deltek Rockhopper had a metalic bronze orange coloured frame, not candy apple red, the base model Deltek with no suspension was called a Bushwacker and had a candy apple blue frame, all Delteks were powered by Victa 125 motors as standard, Delteks were made at the same factory as the Grand Prix minibike. I have a Rockhopper fitted with an optional front brake assembly.

[smed]

This add must have sold a lot of Delteks,nothing better than a hotttie in a pair of C.F.M. boots

[smed]

This is serious mum

[STW996]

I had a Kirby engined Grand Prix. It was a hardtail. Lotsa fun....the chain would derail whenever the sprocket dug into the dirt (often!), the handlebars bent at their bolt mount and I got regularly electrocuted trying to kill the spark while trying not touching the top of the exposed sparkplug. Yeah, lotsa memories
 JohhnyO's pictured model was the deluxe version. I was still happy with the poverty pack version although the handlebars only folded when the mounts broke completely!
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Hey we had these when we first started. Our father was a mower mechanic, we also had Deltek frames with Victor engines and the old style Victor starters as the had a lot of compression, we also ran (in the end) Kirby engines but with jack shafts so as the read sprocket did not dig in. The old old man was pretty good at hotting them up as well.