Yamaha HL500, Ideas and Variations of Building one.

[Marc.com]

for what it is worth, the lady you are all being very rude about is Marion Bazire.  Fabrice Bazire's wife.  You couldnt meet a nicer, kinder, generous, warm hearted woman anywhere. 

Did I miss something  , anyway the French have their own take on customising Tt/XT500s and for whatever reason both the Germans and the French go nuts over them. Japan has been customising them for years.

Anyways back to the thread..... heres a TT based one I built when I first got interested in VMX..... I finally robbed it of all its bits when I built the HL replica

[firko]

Did I miss something   

I was thinking the same thing....I had to go back over the whole thread and couldn't find any French references at all. Methinks a post or two may  have done a runner.

[vmx42]

Did I miss something  , anyway the French have their own take on customising Tt/XT500s and for whatever reason both the Germans and the French go nuts over them. Japan has been customising them for years.

Anyways back to the thread..... heres a TT based one I built when I first got interested in VMX..... I finally robbed it of all its bits when I built the HL replica

Marc, good to see that you have vastly improved your bike building... that thing is truly butt ugly.

[Marc.com]

Marc, good to see that you have vastly improved your bike building... that thing is truly butt ugly.

Yeah hence the reason that bike bit the dust ..... but to make an omlete you have to break a few eggs. like this one, good for the taller dude like my good self

[Davey Crocket]

Geezus Marc.....what drugs where you on when that thing was hatched......makes that "swingarm of the gods" look pretty normal.....mate, some things are better left alone or forgotten about....be carefull opening anything that arrives in the mail in the next few months...even the Taliban will be wondering what retrobrution should take place ...I can see a gee-had coming...

[vmx42]

Marc, good to see that you have vastly improved your bike building... that thing is truly butt ugly.

Yeah hence the reason that bike bit the dust ..... but to make an omlete you have to break a few eggs. like this one, good for the taller dude like my good self

Ahh... much, much better!!! But seeing as it is only a 125, perhaps you should do a mansize one next time. 

[cloggy]

 The french made  the Barigo
 http://enduro80s.free.fr/BRT%20-%20VINTAGE/barigo.htm
used Honds Rotax and xt/tt 500 motors, targeted the Dakar
 There were 4 at the last Beauval enduro, which I luckily managed to enter. Wonderful event, scuppered  by the french federation now requiring a year licence and the weight of it's own popularity

[Marc.com]

for what it is worth, the lady you are all being very rude about is Marion Bazire.  Fabrice Bazire's wife.  You couldnt meet a nicer, kinder, generous, warm hearted woman anywhere. 

Hell now I got it .... I thought it was a short pommy guy sitting in the background and was taking the piss..... not sure that makes it any better, all that talk of impersonating women on this forum.

anyways much heart felt apologies for being a retard to Marion who I have never met but probably just mortally offended.

[JohnnyO]

Marc, good to see that you have vastly improved your bike building... that thing is truly butt ugly.

Yeah hence the reason that bike bit the dust ..... but to make an omlete you have to break a few eggs. like this one, good for the taller dude like my good self

That thing looks good except for the ridiculous gap between the rear tyre and guard..

[crankpin]

I'm not a massive fan of jacked up HL's neither.

10 inches of travel is enough, any more and they become uglier by the inch.

Marc's is far from the worst I've seen though.

[JohnnyO]

Yeah they're basically a '77 model bike and look stupid when they're taller than a modern. A shorter pair of shocks will sort that one easily.

[ola_martin]

Maybe 2012 will be the year I work out how to post them on the forum.....!

Hope so, EARLY 2012 I hope....

[Marc.com]

...be carefull opening anything that arrives in the mail in the next few months...even the Taliban will be wondering what retrobrution should take place ...I can see a gee-had coming...

mate in 1978 that would have had me on the cover of MX Action and people would be fighting over what to call "swingarm of the Gods replicas' ..... in 2012 I just look like a sad case

[bruiser]

Hi All,

A big thank you to to you all... for the many great Pics, advice, ideas, technical info and all contributions to this thread.

Thanks

Bruiser

[firko]

A classic example showing that no matter what good stuff you have to start with, some folks will never, ever get it. This is how not to build a Cheney TT500