1981 and 1982 QLD Enduros photos

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Start of the first round of the 1981 Yamaha Queensland Six Day Series at Canungra.


Left to Right (front row), Craig Woosley, Tony Marshall, Geoff Petler...  (my first enduro - riding on a learners permit...) 


I was obviously going for the Mr. Gumby look..

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Start of the first round of the 1982 Yamaha Queensland Six Day Series at Lake Clarendon.


Brand new YZ125J - I'd love to get one of those again!!   


Left to Right - John Williams, Ross Pentecost, Tony Marshall, Michael Downing.

[JohnnyO]

I like the trick tank on the end bike(maico?)

[TT]

I thought 125 KTM by the front number plate??

[JohnnyO]

I thought 125 KTM by the front number plate??

I think you're right after having a 2nd look at the forks and engine case.

[NSR]

Thats it Tony, Geoffs Bike was a YZ125H with an IT125 tank and plastic.  The first time I saw it was at a motorcycle show that our club put on at the Nambour civic hall.  I thought why don't Yamaha just make that there next IT.  How Naive.
Whats amazing is that from those photos I can count 5 or 6 people that will be at CD
   

[090]

Good photos. Looks like your dads handy work.
Is that bubble on the right ?

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Yeah, Dad's work, but not Bubble on the right.  Can't remember that guys name, but he was (I htink) English, and a member of the RTCB too.  I think he had an IT175...

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Thats it Tony, Geoffs Bike was a YZ125H with an IT125 tank and plastic.  The first time I saw it was at a motorcycle show that our club put on at the Nambour civic hall.  I thought why don't Yamaha just make that there next IT.  How Naive.
Whats amazing is that from those photos I can count 5 or 6 people that will be at CD
   

I'd forgotten all about it until you mentioned it!  I wanted a bike like that!  That's why I had a YZ125J the next year.

Funny though, I remember the next year, towards the end of one of the rounds of the 6 Day Series, Terry Taylor and I swapped bikes for the last section.  Mine was a YZ125J and his was a YZ125H (without the IT125 bits).  He wanted to see how much better the '82 model was, and I'd never ridden a 'H'.

Let's just say that my lust after Geoff Petlers old bike was severely cooled after that...... :'(

[NSR]

I had both the H and the J.  I rember the H I had was a tall peaky SOB and the J had a great motor but overweght.  In the Ponys I used to ride with Rick Madden and we always used his RM Now that was a bike  

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Yeah, I remember wondering how Terry rode that bloody H...  It was tall, top heavy (even compared to the J), super peaky, and rock hard suspension..

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1982 Yamaha QLD Six Day Series - Dalby


My YZ125J after the rear tyre exploded on one of the top gear road sections....  One too many punctures, one too few tubes..


Luckily it was in the last transport section of the day - finished on the rim, only to find they had an acceleration and braking test back at the Kogan Hall.  Snuck past and borrowed Terry's rear wheel out of his H - he wasn't too impressed that I ended up beating him...   

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And the J when it was new...



Yamaha Japan sent a few engineers out to Oz to test some bikes, and we had them over for dinner one night.  He took a copy of this photo back to Japan with him, and the next year that's where the IT175K had it's battery too...  My own piece of Yamaha History!   

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YZ125K at a round of the 6 Day Series in 1983 - can't remember which round though.


Unloaded the bike only to discover a flat front tyre - look close and you'll see a tube, time card and goggles in my hands - only just made the start.  I think from memory Dad met me 100m down the road with  my bumbag.  He repacked it after I changed the tyre.


1983 - Silverdale - special test.

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The YZ125K when it was new..