Retro Dirt Bike Australia - For All Your Pre 90/95/00 Needs

[Graeme M]

OK, this is the big opportunity I know you've all been clamouring for. Pre 90, 95 and 00 is go. Or at least, let's see if this thing really has legs.

Anyone seriously interested in the cause, we have a website just for you. Managed by yours truly and the inimitable Nathan S.

http://www.retrodirtbike.com

From the site intro page:

Retro Dirt Bike Australia is a forum based website dedicated to retro dirt bikes in Australia. But what exactly is a retro dirt bike?

You have probably heard of Vintage Motocross, you may even own or race a Vintage Motocross bike. Vintage Motocross, or VMX, is a long established branch of dirtbiking dedicated to reliving the sights, sounds and memories of yesteryear.

In Australia, VMX has several well defined classes that set the basis for what sort of bike you can and can't ride and what sort of technical specifications apply to VMX racing itself. The general rule though is that VMX is for dirtbikes manufactured before 1 January 1985. The major classes are Pre 70, Pre 75, pre 78, Evolution and Pre 85.

Although some clubs do hold races for Pre 90 model bikes, this class has not yet been formally accepted as part of Vintage Motocross. In fact, there is currently a lot of hot debate around that very issue.

In time of course this will change, but for now we feel that there is a place for a site dedicated to all the wonderful old dirtbikes built between 1985 and 2000. We decided to call these bikes Retro Dirt Bikes.

And that's what this site is. Retro Dirt Bike Australia is a forum for all you fans of the dirtbikes of this era. While our main focus is competition, we welcome anyone with an interest in dirtbiking. So if the flavour of your poison is motocross, enduro, trail riding, dirt track, trials, or even adventure riding, AND you want to know more about or talk about the bikes and times we all enjoyed post 1985 up to 2000, well then, this site is for YOU!

So come on in, join up and let's talk Retro Dirt Bikes.

[shoey]

Nice Graeme

Got a key for the lock

[vmxken]

I'm sure I'll regret this, but...........I don't really understand why anyone would refer to a period in the '90s as being retro.  Doesn't the term retro refer to bikes made today that are reminiscent of bikes made in the '90s, for example, or bikes made anytime in the past for that matter.  I really think a different name should be used (and no, I can't say I have one) for an old period in time.  Retro is now, just with an old look.

Sorry, but every time I see the term retro applied to bikes that are indeed old (not current bikes trying to look old) it just grates and makes absolutely no sense.

Regards

Ken

[Graeme M]

Key Shoey? You just gotta register if you want in. I don't know nuthin about dirtbikes made after 1985 personally, so I'll depend on nathan to keep this one sorted. Be interesting to see what sort of activity it gets and whether there is much interest. Mind you we've got 10 members already. Wonder who'll do the first post? I see Sugar's online already!  

[Graeme M]

I kinda agree Ken, but retro is the only halfway sensible and easy to remember term anyone's come up with. Nathan wanted something like OldDirtBikes.com, which is just too vague. I wanted something that covers a big period in time but is not VMX related, so that meant Classic, Evolution, Vintage and so on were out. I was gonna go with RetroMX, and call it OzRMX.com but figured I'd have Suzuki freaks up in arms all over the shop...

[LWC82PE]

I'm sure I'll regret this, but...........I don't really understand why anyone would refer to a period in the '90s as being retro.  Doesn't the term retro refer to bikes made today that are reminiscent of bikes made in the '90s, for example, or bikes made anytime in the past for that matter.  I really think a different name should be used (and no, I can't say I have one) for an old period in time.  Retro is now, just with an old look.

Sorry, but every time I see the term retro applied to bikes that are indeed old (not current bikes trying to look old) it just grates and makes absolutely no sense.

Regards

Ken

I agree, theres guys in the UK that make modern KTM's look like white models around 87-89, seen the same thing done with modern CR Hondas to make them look mid 80's with blue seats and plain honda wind sticker on the shrouds etc, i think even 090 on here did a CR like that, and they call it a 'retro' make over. But what else can we call it other than retro?

[dalesween]

Hell yeah, pre 00 and im in "heaven".

cheers Dale.

[vmxken]

After thinking about it for the last five minutes, call the bikes from the '90s and '00s as being from the Millenium period.   Millenium motocross sounds almost catchy.  These were the bikes that were around in the lead up to the new millenium and which also arrived in the new millenium.  Simple to say, simple to understand.  Maybe someone has already suggested this but I can't remember it if that's the case.

Retro is totally meaningless for bikes built in the '90s or '00s.  They are NOT retro.



 

[huskibul]

  Good luck with it guy's ,would be good to see these bike's used! How about PRE KMX or pre 2KMX cheers

[Damo]

Congrats Nathan and Graeme

Bruce "magoo" McFarland would be proud of you, as you both know Bruce was a huge supporter of the Pre 90 movement here in NSW.

All the best with the new forum, I have already registered and lets see it ECLIPSE all records on the old farts forum

Damo

[Graeme M]

I like 2KMX and MilleniumMx, not bad at all. I guess in time we'll see if there is an agreement about the right name.

For now though, the site is Retro Dirt Bike Australia even though it may not be quite right.

[Mick22]

Stick with "Retro", sounds OK to me

[lukeb1961]

What is the defining thing that makes a bike a 90's bike?
hideous graphics, water cooled, disc brakes, FAT pipes, stupendous forks, slide-up seat, monoshock and the end of the two-stroke.


so 90's could be referred to as oh, "pre-4T" ?

[Nathan S]

What is the defining thing that makes a bike a 90's bike?

Being made in the 1990s? 

Yeah, pretty much aiming for the bikes between 1985 and the (beginning of the) end of the 2-stroke era - including the early 1990s skinned alien seat covers, radioactive colour schemes and all that.

[lukeb1961]

I liked pre-4T cause the people who ride 90's bikes and love the graphics are urm.. pre-40 :-)

right.. time to get back to serious things - PROPER bikes from 1977-1980