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1/22/2016 4:32pm
1/22/2016 4:32pm
Edited Date/Time
1/24/2016 9:23am
So my Vital brethren are the first to see this.
It just arrived (Friday afternoon) from Santa Rosa courtesy of the artisan who restored it. Mike Tillman. Mike has been working on this for about 6 mos and it turned out beautiful. This was a $600 Craig's List bike with low hours and never raced. We left the kickstand on it because it was on it when I got it!
This era Honda was special for me because Marty Smith was "my guy" back then. And when I saw him roost the #9 at Hangtown in 1977 with Jim Pomeroy on #102, I think I had that little chubby we all were afraid we would have when the teacher called us to the front of the room!
I got to ride one of these one of the older, local hot shoe racers bought when they came out in a dirt field...one time. I I think I needed a crate to get on it. Fond memories.
Now, I have one.
Thank you Mike Tillman! A conversation about seeing if you had a pair of long travel Fox Shocks turned into this project and it is beautiful.
This bike will be at Legends & Heroes truck on Saturday. Marty Smith and Dave Arnold are coming by between practices to see and put sigs on it....(might even hear it run!)
Thank you for letting me gloat a little.
It just arrived (Friday afternoon) from Santa Rosa courtesy of the artisan who restored it. Mike Tillman. Mike has been working on this for about 6 mos and it turned out beautiful. This was a $600 Craig's List bike with low hours and never raced. We left the kickstand on it because it was on it when I got it!
This era Honda was special for me because Marty Smith was "my guy" back then. And when I saw him roost the #9 at Hangtown in 1977 with Jim Pomeroy on #102, I think I had that little chubby we all were afraid we would have when the teacher called us to the front of the room!
I got to ride one of these one of the older, local hot shoe racers bought when they came out in a dirt field...one time. I I think I needed a crate to get on it. Fond memories.
Now, I have one.
Thank you Mike Tillman! A conversation about seeing if you had a pair of long travel Fox Shocks turned into this project and it is beautiful.
This bike will be at Legends & Heroes truck on Saturday. Marty Smith and Dave Arnold are coming by between practices to see and put sigs on it....(might even hear it run!)
Thank you for letting me gloat a little.
The Shop
I bought all the first, individually, then the boxed set after a Yank that lives here stole a few of my DVDs - I'd love to get the second season.
Pit Row
we'll have something from that era on display as well today...
Next? Well, have a 1971 Yamaha Mini Enduro that is about done and a 1969 Penton Six Day (naturally) almost there. Then, 1973 Honda XR75. Enough for a couple of years...unless I find a 1963 Honda CL72 Scrambler...
Yeah, we hope to have that this year. I went over my head making those first ones throwing everything and the kitchen sink at them so now the bar is set high for me because each show is like doing a feature film to turn a 30 minute show into a 3-4 hour film...x 16 of them!
On top of that, we don't make that much money on them and they are expensive to make...plus other projects to pay the bills get in the way.
But, it's on the list to get done in 2016.
Thank you for the support!
Was the rear brake put together wrong when you got it? Linkage goes from bottom to top in the before pic. No big deal, I just noticed.
We determined the bike was low miles, and never raced as it still had side stand on it, all original plastic and the countershaft sprocket cover was perfect and part of the case around the countershaft sprocket was perfect. I guess on these bikes if there was a chain derailment, this little tab on the case would break off and this one was still intact.
:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY0Dycxq1Dw
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