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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #75 on: February 12, 2011, 10:46:29 am »
Shouldn't you be preping your works bike for next weekend Bill :D
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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #76 on: February 12, 2011, 11:03:19 am »
Tony thats what fri nights in motels are for  ;D

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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #77 on: February 12, 2011, 11:07:44 am »
Forget those Alluminium framed 500’s, they’re old school.
I would rather have something in Carbon Fibre
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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #78 on: February 12, 2011, 11:11:37 am »
My one still a bit banged up from cartwheeling down the track at Woodville.
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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #79 on: February 12, 2011, 11:20:41 am »
Mainline i believe the primm museum closed (still have the Tee shirt)
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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #80 on: February 12, 2011, 11:22:01 am »
TM Bill we know what you do in motels on friday night and i have never heard it called"maintance"
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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #81 on: February 12, 2011, 11:22:42 am »
Since i have bugger all knowledge of the works bikes....these tickle my fancy
Gary Jones 73 CR250

Schmits 90 RM250

Decosters 79 RN400

Howertons 76 CR360

McGraths 95 CR250

Wards 85 KX250

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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #82 on: February 12, 2011, 11:38:50 am »
ward's 1984 sr125 I mentioned earlier.

It was in the Primm museum but the website is gone now. I wonder if the museum is still going?



On the O'Mara/Thorpe thing, don't forget O'Mara beat absolutely everyone else on the planet as well, except Bailey, Johnson, and Malherbe (who wasn't there), and he was closing the gap on Bailey.

"My bike was as fast as anyone's on the downhills" said O'Mara. "Whatever I lost going up, I could more than make up for by outbraking into the corners and down the hills"


[/quote]Jeff Wards bikes are now in Troy Lees Museum,I suspect the Primm museum is no more.....

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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #83 on: February 12, 2011, 11:43:50 am »
I'm a bit like monaro308,only works bikes I really know about are Greeves which put them on the world title lists back in the 60's.
The birth era of all big works bikes  8), then of course the only other decent works bikes after this era would have to go to Suzuki  ;D
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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #84 on: February 12, 2011, 01:21:05 pm »
I'm a bit like monaro308,only works bikes I really know about are Greeves which put them on the world title lists back in the 60's.
The birth era of all big works bikes  8), then of course the only other decent works bikes after this era would have to go to Suzuki  ;D
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Greeves won a world title  :o

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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #85 on: February 12, 2011, 02:18:23 pm »
oops should of read mx titles list and I forgot that there were others outside of UK  ;)  ;D
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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #86 on: February 12, 2011, 02:30:33 pm »
  Geez mario that pair of roger's RN-400 and kent's CR-360 how can you expect anybody to choose between them  :P

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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #87 on: February 12, 2011, 02:42:13 pm »
This may surprise a few also but another of the 'trick' bikes I like is the T&M Honda CR125's of Ron Turner and Bruce McDougal 8) I have an orange 125 Suzuki based on these bikes in the pipeline..the very long pipeline ::) ;)





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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #88 on: February 12, 2011, 03:15:03 pm »
ward's 1984 sr125 I mentioned earlier.

It was in the Primm museum but the website is gone now. I wonder if the museum is still going?



On the O'Mara/Thorpe thing, don't forget O'Mara beat absolutely everyone else on the planet as well, except Bailey, Johnson, and Malherbe (who wasn't there), and he was closing the gap on Bailey.

"My bike was as fast as anyone's on the downhills" said O'Mara. "Whatever I lost going up, I could more than make up for by outbraking into the corners and down the hills"

Jeff Wards bikes are now in Troy Lees Museum,I suspect the Primm museum is no more.....
Yes i recently saw and took a few pics of Wardy's works bikes in Troy Lee's showroom, I believe the Primms fell on hard times and sold up.

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Re: If you could choose just one works bike?
« Reply #89 on: February 12, 2011, 05:51:30 pm »
The Primm collection was recentley sold to a U.S. fire arm company owner & the memorabilia was being sold by Rick Doughty of Vintage Iron,there is a thread about it on the Marks Vintage swap meet forum, Mario,looks like you have the book Motocross America by the photos you have posted,good book that one :)