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« Reply #15 on: August 04, 2013, 08:33:29 pm »
and the MX125C brochure.





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Is that your brochure Geoff ?

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« Reply #16 on: August 04, 2013, 08:58:36 pm »
Yes Bill.

l also have YZ125X, 125D, YZ80C, 80D, YZ250C/400C in the one brochure, GT80D, TT500D and DT360A.

I dont recall thinking that much of Yamaha as a young bloke, was always Kawasaki and Suzuki.

Did you want a copy of one of them ?

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« Reply #17 on: August 05, 2013, 06:37:36 am »
Nathan,

My MXC is only the second one I had seen. The first being in 1976 when I worked for Curnutt Shocks.

In my research of these bikes, I think there are 3 1/2 in Australia, 2 in South Africa, and probably somewhere around 15-20 here in the states. I saw somewhere recently that a person over here found 2 almost complete bikes in the last month or two. I know of 5 in California, 5 in Georgia owned by one individual, a guy who has one in Florida that he bought new, and a few sprinkled about the States. Very few parts are even available over here. I was lucky mine had all the major parts still intact, and it was living 20 minutes from my house.

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« Reply #18 on: August 05, 2013, 07:07:29 am »
I have one in NZ  ;) ( was ex Aussie 5 yrs ago )

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« Reply #19 on: August 05, 2013, 07:08:53 am »
Yes Bill.

l also have YZ125X, 125D, YZ80C, 80D, YZ250C/400C in the one brochure, GT80D, TT500D and DT360A.

I dont recall thinking that much of Yamaha as a young bloke, was always Kawasaki and Suzuki.

Did you want a copy of one of them ?

Geoff

Hi Geoff would love a copy of the MX125C brochure  :) happy to pay what ever its worth .

Thanks Bill

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« Reply #20 on: August 05, 2013, 07:13:58 am »
Cool deal TM Bill.

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« Reply #21 on: August 05, 2013, 07:19:13 am »
They are a lovely little bike IMHO  :)

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« Reply #22 on: August 05, 2013, 08:43:32 am »
After looking at the brochure I now see that the shocks look like the YZ 80 D ones so I guess I assumed it was a D model.
Very tidy little bike but I never new that they were made in so few numbers no wonder they were the last if they didn't sell. I wonder what happen to my old ridding buddies one? Would have been sold in north Brisbane.
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« Reply #23 on: August 05, 2013, 08:58:25 am »
Mick that could be the one in my shed  ;) I will dig it out and put up some pics  :)

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« Reply #24 on: August 05, 2013, 09:06:40 am »
Bill are they 5 or 6 speed?
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« Reply #25 on: August 05, 2013, 09:42:08 am »
6 speed mick , they are like a twin shock YZ 125C  :) bit detuned but better handling IMHO and with a GMC pipe and a 34mm carb they are very competitive . ( GMC YZ125A pipe with modified tail pipe ).

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« Reply #26 on: August 05, 2013, 10:23:27 am »
Nathan,

My MXC is only the second one I had seen. The first being in 1976 when I worked for Curnutt Shocks.

In my research of these bikes, I think there are 3 1/2 in Australia, 2 in South Africa, and probably somewhere around 15-20 here in the states. I saw somewhere recently that a person over here found 2 almost complete bikes in the last month or two. I know of 5 in California, 5 in Georgia owned by one individual, a guy who has one in Florida that he bought new, and a few sprinkled about the States. Very few parts are even available over here. I was lucky mine had all the major parts still intact, and it was living 20 minutes from my house.

The ones I know of:
1. Bill's one (now in NZ).
2. One Holeshot Buddy had for sale about 18 months ago.
3. My old incomplete one that I sold to TT5 Matt.

Tim754 said he knew of a good one in rural Vic, but he hadn't seen it for several years (and that was a few years ago), so it doesn't count as a confirmed bike (yet?).

I rode Bill's one at CD6. Great bike, but my YZ-X would eat it: Better suspension and more grunt everywhere makes up for the slightly heavier feel of the X. Might be different for a starving jockey like Bill, but for us adults :D, the X (and a YZ-D) is the better thing.
That said, I'd prefer an MX-C over a YZ-C - something about marketing triumphing over engineering...
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Re: MX 125 D model
« Reply #27 on: August 05, 2013, 10:48:39 am »
Here is me on a 125X. The only time I raced a Yamaha back in those day's. They were a good desert bike but I rode Husky's.




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Re: MX 125 D model
« Reply #28 on: August 05, 2013, 10:50:00 am »
Yes Bill.

l also have YZ125X, 125D, YZ80C, 80D, YZ250C/400C in the one brochure, GT80D, TT500D and DT360A.

I dont recall thinking that much of Yamaha as a young bloke, was always Kawasaki and Suzuki.

Did you want a copy of one of them ?

Geoff

Hi Geoff would love a copy of the MX125C brochure  :) happy to pay what ever its worth .

Thanks Bill

no problem Bill

will look into it this week

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« Reply #29 on: August 05, 2013, 12:09:00 pm »
Thanks Geoff much appreciated

Bill