TT600L

[Marc.com]

Nice TT600 and IT490 on trade me at the moment. Not that I have much love for trade me right now.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-245544407.htm

[paul]

 no love ?

[Marc.com]

and heres mine lurking in the background.   Bloody indestructable apart from the flogged out forks which will bottom under braking.

[Marc.com]

no love ?

yeah poxy trade me kicked me off for loggin on from overseas.... gone to the pack since the Aussies took over.

[Marc.com]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-244984487.htm

same guy has really decent IT490.... great for reliving memeories of early 80s enduros.

[paul]

i use to be able to login on from  here in vic  /has it changed

[Marc.com]

no Aussies can still log on...... I got pinged from logging on using my Japanese laptop.

Hey Paul, if you sold the square barrel you could almost afford the TT600, food for thought.

[dalesween]

i bought my IT250 from that guy in nz.

[firko]

I loved my TT600. I bought her in '82, flogged her mercilessly for yonks and sold her in 2000, still going strong and only using a tiny bit of oil. During its life I did little to her other than fitting USD Yamaha forks from a derelict YZ125 that vastly improved the suspension despite fouling the tank and fitting a front disc to replace the drum (which is still on one of my Maicos). I always believed that the TT600 was a far better and vastly more reliable bike than the XR600 but was let down by the weight of the engine and underdone suspension (on the early ones anyway).

 I was going to rebuild and hot up the engine but the electric start new age 4 strokers were hitting the market so the old girl pretty much became an overnight dinosaur. The bloke I sold it to turned her into a Duex style cafe racer with GSX Suzuki 3 spoke mags and a Manx style tank, looking nothing like the dirt bike she'd started life as. He's still got it I'm told.

[Marc.com]

Hi Mark,

Yeah I YZ forks and shock for my TT sitting about. Its is drum brake model, I will keep it reasonable stock, just get the forks and shock sorted. Motor is brick shit house, still heap of grunt. Have plans to finish my Harley this year also.

[jimson]

tt600 I had one back in 1988 when I was in Darwin it was a beast of a thing wish I stll had it. It was stolen and burnt out.When the coppers came to my door I was pissed a naked but thats another story  jimson

[lms6201]

mine kept blowing tranny,s , didn,t like top gear wheelie,s for more than 2 k,s at a time , great handling bike , why isn,t any one useing one for pre 85 

[Marc.com]

mine kept blowing tranny,s , didn,t like top gear wheelie,s for more than 2 k,s at a time , great handling bike , why isn,t any one useing one for pre 85 

don't know, I never blown a tranny.

I think as pre 85 mount they have been used from time to time and made the occasional Tumper Nats appearance back in the days before it became AllThumper Nats.

I think a well set up one would do pretty well as a fun MX bike. YZ fork springs and shock would give you a decent set up. Engine is probably fast enough standard.