hl500

[mainline]

Nice patina

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/221705300305?_mwBanner=1

[g465b]

nice rare and at current exchange rates about 23,600 oz dollars plus freight plus gst this end, shit.

[pmc57]

Nice looking bike but you just never know what you get with these "top shelf" examples of bikes from the past.

The presence of what looks like gasket goo oozing out around the cam shaft cover doesn't help, tells me that workmanship on assembly may have taken a back seat with this bike.

 

[Tomas]

agree with pmc57. for that many dollars you can build nice replica with brand new GMC frame+swing arm and your own choice of motor, wheels, forks etc.

[Graeme M]

I wonder if that's a genuine Pro Fab swingarm? My Pro Fab HL had a different swingarm - axle plate kicked up and the shock mounts were about in the middle not at the end. maybe they changed the design in later runs? Or maybe that's a very early version? Certainly the ProTec 600 used the same style arm as mine did.

[GMC]

I wonder if that's a genuine Pro Fab swingarm? My Pro Fab HL had a different swingarm - axle plate kicked up and the shock mounts were about in the middle not at the end. maybe they changed the design in later runs? Or maybe that's a very early version? Certainly the ProTec 600 used the same style arm as mine did.

I think the different swingarm was an option, the arm on your bike Graeme was probably the most common, it's the same as the one Aberg is on in the Profab brochure but the arm on the UK bike looks very much like the arm sitting loose in the Profab brochure.

The frame on the UK bike has all the indications of being a Profab frame
I would think a Profab frame in the UK is probably rare as would a NVT frame be in the States

[JohnnyO]

Some early HL's had laydown shocks like that one. MXA had pics of them back in the day

[LWC82PE]

The pic GMC posted is from the 79 Hallman catalogue
There certainly was not just one or 2 types of HL's. They varied depending on if it was an early or later version and the US ones were pretty much 'kit' bikes and probably no 2 would be the same.

This one would be 78ish

[NSR]

How is the size of that back tyre

[LWC82PE]

Yeah probably 17 rim with a big 5.50 tyre. A few of the old catalogues i got rave on about how it was the hot new set up at the time.

[GMC]

Yes the 17" rim was one of the extra's that the brochure recommended
BTW, it's the 77 brochure

[LWC82PE]

That is the same page as what is in the 79 catalogue i have. Nothing in 81 catalogue  though as i guess they were old news then.

[bigk]

BFUSOPOPOS. Just my opinion.
K

[djr]

BFUSOPOPOS. Just my opinion.
K
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Go on, Please explain . Are you trying to say you don't like  HL500's ?   

Personally I wouldn't mind one , they are the only 4 stroke I find interesting , plus they are rare & mostly handmade.

BUT I can see why some people don't like them - just like CCM's they were never a World beater & people ask silly money for them

[William Doe]

BFUSOPOPOS. Just my opinion.
K
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Go on, Please explain . Are you trying to say you don't like  HL500's ?   

Personally I wouldn't mind one , they are the only 4 stroke I find interesting , plus they are rare & mostly handmade.

BUT I can see why some people don't like them - just like CCM's they were never a World beater & people ask silly money for them

Couple of points

No I don't like them , I liked the original that Aberg raced but the jacked up abominations that were later models and the copies of those you see today you can keep 

The original was a world beater it won a GP leg with Aberg riding it .