When ever I get on this site lately I have to double check that I haven’t clicked on
www.olddribbledicks.com by mistake.
Oh woe is all that have been wronged by the fitting of later model forks to bikes.
So it’s not a HL replica because it’s been fitted with later forks?
Like it only happens to HL replicas.
If a YZ 125 A has been fitted with 250 model forks is it no longer a 125 A?
I can just picture now loads of perfectly good YZ’s up on blocks because they’ve had their wheels and forks stolen for HL projects.
Gimme a break.
YZ wheels and forks have been stolen for all sorts of bikes because they represent the best fork / brake for Evo.
And it shouldn’t take much for you Einstein’s to realize that these HL replica’s have been built to suit the Evo class and so have the latest possible parts to suit this class. You talk like it never happens to any other bike.
I agree some seem to have got the geometry wrong but that should make it all the easier to turn underneath them in corners.
Do you happen to write fairytales in your spare time bigK?
Never been beaten by a HL???
I seem to recall at Boagy’s a couple of years ago that you were imitating a Caboose while a HL was at the pointy end of the field.
Why do HL’s get talked about more?
Because they have had a long history.
From the first project bike, to Abergs win to the bike that RJ rode spans quite e few years.
I doubt that RJ felt compelled to ride with 78 model forks, he chose to use the best that were available at the time.
I rode a HL a couple of years ago, young Frank’s who rides with Viper. It seems to be put together nicely and the first thing I noticed after hopping of an 81 Maico was that the HL had a small bike feel to it. It also turned on a dime.
Anyone that’s ever ridden a XT / TT 500 will know they are heavy cumbersome things but after riding one for a while you will notice they have some nice traits, mostly in the motor. So then some suffer the desire to make it more like an MX bike, slimmer, lighter and better suspension.
That’s pretty much what Kawasaki did with the KLX, fitted a KL motor into a KX 125 frame.
NVT = Norton, Villiers & Triumph.
They had the European Yamaha distributorship, and as they funded the complete bike builds they were therefore distributed through their European network. This is why none were officially imported into Aust. in the day.
Pro Tec & Pro Fab
ProFab were a fabrication company that built frame kits among other things.
Protec was a sales type company. They used a Profab frame to build RJ’s bike that was used in the “American four stroke World Championship”