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Offline mposs

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Re: 1977
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2012, 09:38:24 pm »
Making like Mike "Too Tall" Bell racing an XR75 with the Townsville Minibike Club....



And dreaming of getting a 77 Elsinore ...


Picture from 76 M2 Brochure.
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Offline suzuki59

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Re: 1977
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2012, 09:45:39 pm »
Seven years old driving trucks etc on Dads farm,good days indeed.
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Re: 1977
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2012, 10:31:05 pm »
Tivoli 1977  L to R Noel Harker, Andrew Bailey, Stew MacLauchlan, Mark Biltoft, Tom Pitkin, Shane Kirkpatrick, Alex Kidas, John Kittle and Kev Mortimer..
4 of these guys currently race VMX  :)
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Re: 1977
« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2012, 10:32:24 pm »
Getting a bit of a hole shot there Johnny O!
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Re: 1977
« Reply #19 on: October 30, 2012, 10:39:37 pm »
Anyone recognise this track??  myself at Conondale July '77..

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Re: 1977
« Reply #20 on: October 31, 2012, 05:02:54 am »
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And dreaming of getting a 77 Elsinore ...

Just picked up a 77 Elsinore for $100, 95% complete  ;D 

And isnt 77 the first year for the bikes being longer travel?
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Re: 1977
« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2012, 06:48:37 am »
Quote from: Cabmkr on October 31, 2012, 05:02:54 am
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And dreaming of getting a 77 Elsinore ...

Just picked up a 77 Elsinore for $100, 95% complete  ;D 

And isnt 77 the first year for the bikes being longer travel?


Everything except the Elsinore  ;D and kawasaki didn't bother building one at all  ::)
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Re: 1977
« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2012, 07:05:07 am »
77 was the best year for me as a kid summer seemed to go on forever, i had a rm 125b and was racing b grade, we didnt have juniors, total immersion in bikes !!! 78 not so good got smashed up at second round of champs got out of hospital to find all bike and gear sold !! Could not appreciate what my dad went through until i had kids , now I get it ;)
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Re: 1977
« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2012, 07:00:41 am »
June '77 Singapore.
Got a flat rear in practice and did a 6 minute repair to get to the starting gate in time. Best holeshot ever into a left to set up for the triples. Launched of the first, landed on the second and "almost" cleared the third. Rear caught the lip and an arse over tit with the rest of the pack thundering down.....
Seems the Singapore TV crew were filming the action for a sports segment. So every Friday evening for the next few years, they finished off the sports program with this idiot crashing his brains out.....
Back then, we didn't have them new video fangled things, so the ol' man set up the tripod in front of the TV and ran the motor drive on his SLR.
Could only find 3 of the snaps......



Also, the RM250A was getting tired in comparison to the "B" model release but the big torque pipe and duct tape holding the fenders together still made it competitive...
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Offline Colin Jay

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Re: 1977
« Reply #24 on: November 01, 2012, 09:24:55 am »

Bought a Yamaha IT250D and started riding 2 Day enduros. Used to travel from Broken Hill across to Cessnock, and other east coast locations.



Sorry but no pictures from '77, above pic is from the very wet first 4 Day at Cessnock in 78.

CJ
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