Debuting at A2....moto porn...at least for me.

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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. Smile

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.







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1/22/2016 4:43pm
Wow, huge change! Very nice. If you ever get bored of it I can take.care of it for you......
1/22/2016 4:52pm
Wow. That's great. It must have been your lucky day finding one pretty much complete and in decent shape for that price. Good job.
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1/22/2016 4:53pm
THAT is vintage sexy. Gorgeous!

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1/22/2016 6:02pm Edited Date/Time 1/22/2016 6:03pm
That was a score for $600, how much is in it to get it this point?
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1/22/2016 6:43pm
That is bad ass.
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1/22/2016 6:59pm
Appears as if someone has spent a little money with the fine folks at Holley Equipment in Japan. Nice pipe, for a nice bike. Looking good! Now, what's next???Smile
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1/22/2016 7:16pm
Looks great, Todd. Smile
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1/22/2016 7:19pm
Awesome!
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BEAUTIFUL
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1/22/2016 9:33pm
Holy crap..! Beauty!
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Hot damn! Boing!
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1/22/2016 9:55pm
Hey Todd : are you ever going to offer the second series of The MX Files for sale as a boxed set?

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.
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1/22/2016 10:07pm
Drop dead gorgeous. Once of the nicest looking bikes ever, especially with the Fox Shocks. Don't ever sell it!!!
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1/23/2016 6:42am
Really nice bike! Marty Smith was everybody's guy back in the day
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1/23/2016 6:54am
Nice Red Ride you have there Todd !

we'll have something from that era on display as well today...
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1/23/2016 6:56am
RandyS wrote:
That was a score for $600, how much is in it to get it this point?
Yeah it was Randy! Don't know what the final "bill" is but it will be much lower BECAUSE, Mr. Tillman did it for the cost of parts and supplies, no labor! He wanted to do this bike (he specializes in Euro bikes) and as a "Thank you" to the work our team does with our historical motorcycle films and videos. It was hard to say "no". A very special gesture. A real great guy!
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newmann wrote:
Appears as if someone has spent a little money with the fine folks at Holley Equipment in Japan. Nice pipe, for a nice bike. Looking good...
Appears as if someone has spent a little money with the fine folks at Holley Equipment in Japan. Nice pipe, for a nice bike. Looking good! Now, what's next???Smile
Thanks Newmann! Yep, getting the right pipe was proving difficult so Mike just went to the top with this one! Its very trick!

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...Smile
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1/23/2016 7:06am
Bearuno wrote:
Hey Todd : are you ever going to offer the second series of The MX Files for sale as a boxed set? I bought all the...
Hey Todd : are you ever going to offer the second series of The MX Files for sale as a boxed set?

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.
Hi Bearuno!

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!

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1/23/2016 7:07am
Thats a really nice looking bike. Be nice to hear it run and feel the vibrations of that sweet air cooled engine through the steel bars.Smile

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.
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Sandberm wrote:
Thats a really nice looking bike. Be nice to hear it run and feel the vibrations of that sweet air cooled engine through the steel bars.:)...
Thats a really nice looking bike. Be nice to hear it run and feel the vibrations of that sweet air cooled engine through the steel bars.Smile

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.
The brake arm bracket on hub was broken so it was just flopping...

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.
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1/23/2016 7:35am
To me that era Hondas are the best looking bikes in the history of the sport. The red frames, red engines and red bodywork just screamed race bike.
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1/23/2016 8:12am
Cygnus wrote:
Hot damn! Boing!
Boing! Boing!...
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1/23/2016 12:05pm
you should bring it out to pala or milestone for a forum member ride day, I promise I will only be out a couple minutes.. very nice...

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