Wacky inventions

[GMC]

We've debated boost bottles & the infamous No-Dive system before but how about these handlebars I found an an 80's magazine.
Maybe I should jig up to make replica's
Hope it's readable.

[AjayVMX]

Just the thing for steering precision...

[Maicojames]

This bike look like an 82 RM250, by the end of the year DB's 82 RM250 had a Twin Air one sided airbox, Simons UDX60 forks, M Robert numberplate/rear fender and who knows what else...

Anyone recall the YZM 250 of say 89-91 with a carbon fiber flat spring on rear shock? It mounted on the bottom of swingarm-and was falt like a leaf spring. Weird........

How about Jones Ball Grips? They looked like OURY grips, but had a spherical ball cast in the end of the grip...lind of looked like well, you couldn't make them today in our politically correct world...

Any more?

Thank you, James

[Lozza]

I reckon you would go broke pretty fast, considering none turn up in their packets on evilpay.I would offer that the test rider could do with some addidtional compression damping

[Tony T]

I'd forgotten about those............... I'll bet there was heaps more dumb inventions right up there with 'boot savers'  etc 
Anyone recall any?

[magoo]

I love boot savers, they were really cool.

[Doc]

  hey! I had a nice pair of booty savers as well..actually I had quite a few pairs 
they were in the cheapy bin next to the plastic levers at McLeods in the days when you could actually go there and buy quality things..in the end, these so called boot savers got cut up and reworked into crossbar pads, the beginning of my patchwork and quilting interests  those bars are trick but not as trick as rubber bars! Long live the PP No-Dive!! I must fit that someday soon as well

[Tim754]

Re Wacky inventions = sidecars???

[vandy010]

gotta love the good old "visor view"
as worn by malcom and steve in that movie they made

[Tim754]

Yamaha remember those huge air cans thingos on the top of forks (late70s?) were pretty neat and  nicely wacky too

[Freakshow]

i got some sets of somthing similar not just the yaamha AIR cans but from what i think where AFM on some honda forks, they are a dial pressure guage on a threaded fork cap that are screwed inplace instead of the top fork tube cap, they have like a small dial similar to a regulator and they showed the pressure in your legs, from memory you can fill or bleed from the car valve under the guage and i have one set in red and one in black.  so they musta been on at least 2 differant bikes, but not sure what year/models these where on, i should measure the tubes.

[dkupf]

Freakyshow,I have  set-up like this laying around somewere. The one I have all screws onto the air valve already in the fork cap. Guage and T piece on one side and elbow with a cross over pipe on the other. I had the same set up back in my hoon days on a old 500 triple Kawasaki.  :)Darcy

[Hoony]

I had the same set up back in my hoon days on a old 500 triple Kawasaki.  :)Darcy

All My Days are "HOON" Days

[TonyB]

I notice the first thread says we've debated boost bottles but i unfortunately did'nt see that one, and i am busy deciding whether to remove mine or add one? bike started as IT465 now busy getting converted to yz so i wondered if it would be good to drop the boost bottle. I also have moto tassinari reeds v force which i am going to install. I have read pros and cons regarding the boost but never seen a dyno result...

[Lozza]

Just install the V force and ANY thoughts of adding boost bottles will rapidly evaporate.