'77 VB 250

[All Things 414]

So do I...........

[montynut]

Hi Stan,
I think you may be correct about the '78 VB360 black and yellow stripes as even magazine reports of the period show that colour. I can not find one picture of a '78 360 with other than the black and yellow stripe.

The '77 250 I am pretty sure also had the yellow and black as my mate picked up a VB250 in the crate from Ryan's in Sydney in January '77 the same day as I collected a VB360. We took them home and completed assembly that afternoon. I am all but certain both my 360 and his 250 had identical tank stripes. I can not find any photos of VB250's with other than the yellow and black.

'77 VB250 (only mod I can see is the strange extension of the pipe exit)

'78 VB250

'78 VB360 test

[Stan S]

Hi Stan,
I think you may be correct about the '78 VB360 black and yellow stripes as even magazine reports of the period show that colour. I can not find one picture of a '78 360 with other than the black and yellow stripe.

The '77 250 I am pretty sure also had the yellow and black as my mate picked up a VB250 in the crate from Ryan's in Sydney in January '77 the same day as I collected a VB360. We took them home and completed assembly that afternoon. I am all but certain both my 360 and his 250 had identical tank stripes. I can not find any photos of VB250's with other than the yellow and black.

Gday montynut, yeah you are probably right. Must have been thinking of the green stripes on 77 "VB" cans 
I also have a couple of photo's you might be interested in that I took in 78.

[mx250]

Is that a home made No Dive?

[Stan S]

Is that a home made No Dive?

Yes mx250, we all had them for a while on our Monty's back then

Regards Stan.

[montynut]

Love that antidive on the '78 250 Would never have thought the Monty brakes would be powerful enough to make it work  My rule of thumb was to brake at the same point as the Jap bikes and you automantically out braked them because the Monty brakes were lets say less than ideal 

I have to say I like those VB side covers on both bikes very neat application of the stupid ACU side number plate rule

[JohnnyO]

Is that a home made No Dive?

Yeah i was just wondering the same thing.
What are the shocks on that 250?
Are you sure those shots aren't from '79? there's a '79 A5 KX in the background.

[Stan S]

Is that a home made No Dive?

Yeah i was just wondering the same thing.
What are the shocks on that 250?
Are you sure those shots aren't from '79? there's a '79 A5 KX in the background.

Hi JohnnyO, the guy on the 250 is Peter Christian from Stawell. I am not sure of those shocks but he did run some Bilsteins around that time. It is Definitely late 78 and thats when I took delivery of that first  KX250A5.

Regards Stan.

[JohnnyO]

No worries Stan..late '78 makes sense.

[Stan S]

Love that antidive on the '78 250 Would never have thought the Monty brakes would be powerful enough to make it work  My rule of thumb was to brake at the same point as the Jap bikes and you automantically out braked them because the Monty brakes were lets say less than ideal 

I have to say I like those VB side covers on both bikes very neat application of the stupid ACU side number plate rule

We made those sidecover/number plates to comply with the new rules and ended up selling a heap of sets to Lyall O'brien at the time.

Regards Stan.
 

[holeshot buddy]

i am confused i dug out some photos of my
old vb360 and when i got it it had those stripes through
the line but later shots had yellow and black
i must have changed them
it was ron dinsdales old bike

i ran vf sidecovers on my vb worked good

[Stan S]

i am confused i dug out some photos of my
old vb360 and when i got it it had those stripes through
the line but later shots had yellow and black
i must have changed them
it was ron dinsdales old bike
i ran vf sidecovers on my vb worked good

Was that a 77 or 78 model VB? We would have been happy to have run the VF sidecovers but it was a couple of years too early for the VB's.

Stan

[mx250]

The other side................



Far prettier than the factor VF effort .

[Stan S]

The other side................
Far prettier than the factor VF effort .

I agree Graeme, by the way as I took this picture also you must have got it off 414's old website?

Regards Stan.

[mx250]

The other side................
Far prettier than the factor VF effort .

I agree Graeme, by the way as I took this picture also you must have got it off 414's old website?

Regards Stan.

I can't remember where I stole it from but I grabbed it thinking I might make a copy the side covers for my VB - I needed it for inspiration .