Best Looking Flattracker of all time. Vote.

[Freakshow]

Mate i have trouble posting pics, video  

The YZ's in the musem so i wont be riding it, got lots of toys for that.

If its period correct you can run it, the USA is looser on what they call sportman class etc they allow a lot of extras after 75 if it not going to make it faster.

All post 72 will have rear disks, and a spooler front, but mags are only really seen on a few bikes, personal taste, but not many guys like them for obvious reason they look shit.

mostly the Street tracker guys run them on XS 650 stuff.  Even the modern still like the VM3.5 rims and spokes.

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[yzhilly]

hey you have to host them on U tube . I'm lookin at ridin a few meets at Broadford next year and there will only be a couple of classes ,Pre 90 and capacity so i can run anything up to 500cc so i might build something out of the bits in the shed and maybe a IT465 engine  should be fun.

[Freakshow]

I been thinking of borrowing the My Sc 500's motor and sticking it in a champion frame i have for a MX 360 , i just cant figure out if it will mount straight up or not.  Im going to ride bikes this year i like not that are fast, Fun in 08 is doing to be the catch cry, i got a champion DT1 wont right any records but i just think its a sexy looking bike for coozing around on ( unless i start to look into spacer plates and doing the gorden jennings on it.
  Where is the NAtional this year and the dates ?
they are listing our meets so i hope i can come over or do a broadford meet with you this year, time permitting. 

[yzhilly]

sounds good freaky see ya there,hey hoony wheres the honda in flat track trim ?.

[mx250]

whats the deal with mag wheels can you run them in oz ? Are they any good.

If they are period I guess you could run them.

I don't know the details of the Yammy but I'm guessing they are late '70's XS650 19in front wheels, the rear wheel having been adapted for sprocket.

The 'mags' of the period were generally heavier than spoked wheels but were stronger laterally.

Heavier wheels would effect the 'spin up' and acceleration and would effect 'tip in', generally slow the responce to rider steering inputs and also effect suspension responsiveness.

The laterally stronger wheel would give a more precise 'feel' and would probably be an advantage once the bike is laid over and sliding.

All in all, technically and in performance a fairly even argument as indictated by Freaky.

[jimg1au]

this is the best flattracker of all time so good they banned it

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[vandy010]

and yet another yamaha with a sprinkle of imagination.
and saving memory too with a link!
http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/989521/

[Doc]

so good they banned it

.. You'd have to ask Kenny Snr about that one..he stated these immortal words after winning the AMA title.."they don't pay me enough to ride that thing"  the frame was indeed a Champion design by Doug Schwerma.
Whilst it might have been quite animal and awesome the fact is he only barely won the series from Jay Springsteen and Corky Keener on this bike. It was an utter pig to get off the line which meant he always had to come from behind the pack and usually he did it around the outside!

[yzhilly]

Yeah Vandy i like that it would be fun to ride ,I rode my sons yz100 at broadford in the 125 races and while underpowered it loved goin around corners where on my 400 it is a arm wrestle to get it around.  Also firko what does jones's bike sound like those gold rocket launchers  they look awesome?. Is there anywhere at raymond terrace to get these bikes out for a run ?.

[firko]

I saw Randy Mamola do a half time demo on the TZ750 dirt tracker at Ascot before they pulled it down in the eighties and he was amazing. He made even that beast look rideable.
Alan hasn't fired the Flat tracker yet Hilly. Although it's finished he's found an ignition problem and is waiting on parts to come from England. If there is a Dirt Track session at CD5 he's bringing it along with the rest of his little collection.

[Hoony]

Firko i bet jones's ignition problem is the "interspan" magic box huh, those bloody things always play up and the batteries don't last.

Hilly i haven't got a site to host my CR in dirt track form, if i send you a pic can you host it for me ? i could post it direct but want to save the sites limit to help out our esteemed WEB-Meister !

[Graeme M]

OK, so it's not the best looking flat-tracker of all time (although I DO like those TT500 based bikes), but I love this pic.

[mx250]

OK, so it's not the best looking flat-tracker of all time (although I DO like those TT500 based bikes), but I love this pic.

Show us the next frame 

[Graeme M]

That's King Kenny hisself, playing around for the cameras. Apparently he used to have problems on these bikes hanging the shift lever up on the ground, he'd get it down so far. How I have no idea...

[vandy010]

and still on the gas too!
kool!