Johnny Os works Honda

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Edited Date/Time 10/2/2013 6:40am
Ok guys this is from a national back in 84 or 85 at lakewood. Look underneath the rear fender of O shows bike and tell me what the silver thing is that is above the mudflap.
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holy low bars
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Holy grape smuglers !
Donny O'Slow O'Hara 6/23/2013 1:45am
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Great Scott !!! I thought everyone knew that the Works Honda's used a Flux capacitor and ran on 1.21 Gigawatt's of power.

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BVS40FL 6/23/2013 6:17am
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Is that the Cycle news reporter who's face is hidden by the van hood ? The one that used to ride around on the xr 75. And possibly his wife next to him. She had a little pit bike too.
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lostboy819 6/23/2013 10:44am
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BVS40FL wrote:
Is that the Cycle news reporter who's face is hidden by the van hood ? The one that used to ride around on the xr 75...
Is that the Cycle news reporter who's face is hidden by the van hood ? The one that used to ride around on the xr 75. And possibly his wife next to him. She had a little pit bike too.
Thats Gary Bailey and O Mara's girlfriend.
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Robgvx 6/24/2013 5:39am
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Factory Hondas had that panel thing in the airbox. Not sure why.

Mitch_Berger 6/25/2013 8:35am
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Donny O'Slow O'Hara wrote:
Great Scott !!! I thought everyone knew that the Works Honda's used a Flux capacitor and ran on 1.21 Gigawatt's of power.
Are you sure it is not the reverse inductance transducer at 2.3 giga watts
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Sano spool throttle. Is that a clear cover on it?
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I think it is put bolt in threw the air filter. The air box was real thin to clear the shock.
Donny O'Slow O'Hara 6/25/2013 8:01pm
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Donny O'Slow O'Hara wrote:
Great Scott !!! I thought everyone knew that the Works Honda's used a Flux capacitor and ran on 1.21 Gigawatt's of power.
Mitch_Berger wrote:
Are you sure it is not the reverse inductance transducer at 2.3 giga watts
What was I thinking that makes much more sense, these are Works Bikes were talking about, for God sakes !!!
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Robgvx 6/26/2013 2:06am
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245 wrote:
I think it is put bolt in threw the air filter. The air box was real thin to clear the shock.
That's probably right. I never took the air filter out or seat off to actually check.
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Bluelion 9/26/2013 7:19am
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To Robgvx, do you own that factory honda in the picture you posted?
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jzazella 9/26/2013 8:03am
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The panel allows access to the bolt that secures the air filter. Instead of fishing around in there like the regular guys did.
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Robgvx 9/26/2013 7:23pm
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To Robgvx, do you own that factory honda in the picture you posted?
No, but my friend does. It's Thorpe's RC500. I gave it a temporary home for a few months until it went overseas to it's new owner.

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Bluelion 9/27/2013 4:10am
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Bluelion wrote:
To Robgvx, do you own that factory honda in the picture you posted?
Robgvx wrote:
No, but my friend does. It's Thorpe's RC500. I gave it a temporary home for a few months until it went overseas to it's new owner.
Do you happen to have anymore good pictures of it?
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Robgvx 9/27/2013 6:56am
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Do you happen to have anymore good pictures of it?
Yes, on my office PC. I did post them here once before but I can't find them. Will re-post next week.
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Robgvx 10/1/2013 4:43am
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More photos as requested Bluelion.
































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newmann 10/1/2013 8:31am
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Those are some tasty pics sir. Spare engine on the bench or is that the one in the bike?
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Tdub13 10/1/2013 8:59am
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Holymoly! Is than an accentric top triple? I love the radiators and all the one-off hardware. Is this the last non-PV CR? Wish I coule hear it run!
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Bluelion 10/1/2013 10:17am
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Hey Robgvx, I cant thank you enough for taking the time to post these wonderful pictures of this wonderful bike. I love seeing current clear detailed pictures of the great works bikes of the past of our motocross history.I wish more collectors would do it. It gives us guys a chance to see up close the workmanship that went into these bikes...I just love it!!!
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Robgvx 10/2/2013 2:08am
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newmann wrote:
Those are some tasty pics sir. Spare engine on the bench or is that the one in the bike?
The bike is the machine that David Thorpe won the 1985 world championship on and was presented to DT by HRC for winning the championship. However HRC made Keith Thorpe remove all the engine internals before it was handed over. Hence the bike was a non-runner. There was nothing inside the engine apart from a countershaft, gear selector shaft and kickstart shaft/gear. We tried to find parts to get it running but although there are sufficient parts knocking around nobody would help a brother out by selling anything. Assholes, IMHO.

The motor you see in bits was a complete RC500 motor that the owner purchased from a guy in Italy in order to make the bike a runner again. (Yes, he was able to buy a complete, genuine HRC motor which I found advertised on a web site!).

According to the mechanic who re-built it he had never seen anything so fine-tuned. He said that every part of that motor had been worked on to make it the best that it could be.

The crank looks pretty trick huh?





Trick-ass crank. We wonder what the weights/inserts are....


How the bike was when purchased:




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Robgvx 10/2/2013 2:09am
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Tdub13 wrote:
Holymoly! Is than an accentric top triple? I love the radiators and all the one-off hardware. Is this the last non-PV CR? Wish I coule hear...
Holymoly! Is than an accentric top triple? I love the radiators and all the one-off hardware. Is this the last non-PV CR? Wish I coule hear it run!
No CR500s (or even RC500s) ever had a power valve.
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Robgvx 10/2/2013 2:22am
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Oh, and note the vacuum take-off point on the cylinder. The vacuum was used to operate a diaphragm pump to lift the fuel from the bottom of the low fuel tank (which Thorpe didn't use in 1985 although Malherbe did).

Radiator must have cost a ton of money to build, but probably not as much as the 1986 model, which also had a bend built in to it





1986 model had a bent radiator, rear disc, and DT used the low tank option.
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Bluelion 10/2/2013 3:43am
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Thanks again Rob for posting...I wonder where that 86 modled is??? It is to bad that the AMA outlawed the works bikes here in the US...Just think what we would have seen come out of Japan...
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Bluelion 10/2/2013 3:48am
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Maybe we would have seen more bikes like this Twin cylinder RC 125...

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