1975, how serious were you?

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This is not the actual bike I had but I had one of these and thought I was cool. Also Huffy thunder road.
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1975 was my first bike shop job. And I couldn't have been happier than to be working at Yamaha of Garland. The first real MX'r I owned was the YZ125c and I loved it. It got stolen and Later that year the YZ125 x came out. I was allowed to have one but I had to pay for it. $1000.00 loan from the bank via my parents but I paid the note! (Employee Discount)..
Then I went to work for Garland Suzuki just in time to live the release of the Latest RM "A" and "B" models. It wasn't long before I had purchased a RM 250C 1978 model.
Working at the shops I had the opportuniy to ride just about every model that had come out, in the fields next door (test track) which were plentiful in the day. Things like the TM 400'sTM125's, RM125's like pictured above. Rm 370's ,400's . The YZ and MX 250's XT and TT 500's. It was a fantastic time and I was real serious after all how could there be anything more important than Motocross. A tip for you guys that have the YZ 125c's or YZ125x's the absolute best exhaust you could put on one of those was the stock YZ100 Exhaust. It really woke the 125's up.
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1975 is when I got serious. [URL=http://s660.photobucket.com/user/rustrunner/media/BACKUP2406.jpg.html][IMG]http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu322/rustrunner/BACKUP2406.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
1975 is when I got serious.
Lol!! Grinning Cool
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75 Hodaka tora 80cc
76 74 CR125
77 76 RM 125
78 78 RM125
And the list goes on and on thru 2014....

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Uncle Tony 9/11/2014 1:18pm
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I used to run down too my local Suzuki dealer and drool over the rm125, I ended up in Spain that summer and bought a bultaco pursang 360
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Sandberm wrote:
I have most of this bike in the rusted form in a couple of boxes. Someday I'll restore it when I have the proper shop and...
I have most of this bike in the rusted form in a couple of boxes. Someday I'll restore it when I have the proper shop and not the dirty shed I work out of now.

1975 I went from my 125 Elsinore to one of these YZs. Racing it stock against the CMC experts wasn't much fun.
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Oldmxer95 9/11/2014 4:47pm
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I bought a "C" model when they came out new and now I have this one in my collection.



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jimmie 9/11/2014 5:05pm
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The very day I picked up my "brand new" 1974 TM 125 there was a 1975 TM sitting next to it and thought......damn!

That 75 looked so sweet, not too different from the bike I loaded into the pickup the take home, but still....

I was non-the-less, a very happy 14 year old. GOOD TIMES for sure.














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A ct 70 with MX bars and dt90 ripping around saddleback in awe of anyone on a MX bike riding the real track.
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Paw Paw 271 9/11/2014 5:52pm
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1975 I was riding a new Carabella 125.
1976 I was riding a new Honda CR125.
1977 I was on a 1976 RM125.
1978 I was on a 1978 RM125 & RM250
1979 to 1984 I was on a 1979 CR250R.
1984-1986 I was on a Kaw 250.
1987- 1990 I was on a 1987 CR125.
1990-1994 I was on a 1990 Suzuki RM250.
1994- 2000 I was on a 1994 Suzuki RM250.
2001- 2005 I was on 2 YZ250F's.
2005 - 2013 I was on a CR450R.
2014 I am on a Husqvarna TC449.

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hvaughn88 wrote:
Haha, I give you old guys a hard time mainly out of jealousy. I've always felt like I was born in the "wrong" generation. I'm not...
Haha, I give you old guys a hard time mainly out of jealousy. I've always felt like I was born in the "wrong" generation. I'm not into video games, hip-hop, latest greatest cell phones, prius (no offense prius guys), or any of the other "typical" things of my generation. I hear the stories of that time frame my dad tells me and they sound like such an awesome time to be a young guy.
dazzlindino wrote:
duuude...back in those days...you could start your bike in the garage...ride down the street.. and go riding afterschool or after work....EVERYDAY...on several different tracks laid out...
duuude...back in those days...you could start your bike in the garage...ride down the street..
and go riding afterschool or after work....EVERYDAY...on several different tracks laid out in the desert...
and all day on weekends.....haha..wore them bikes out...
now...well you know the strory...load up...drive at least an hour 1 way...once or twice a week...big difference there...


this was actually 1973 Spillway Park in Santa Maria, 75 would of put me on a 74 250 Mag Husqvarna...good times!!
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FWYT wrote:
1975 ....
I was on an XR-75. Wonder if I can find a photo . . .
Same for me, wish I !had some photos!!
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FWYT wrote:
1975 ....
I was on an XR-75. Wonder if I can find a photo . . .
kevkx125 wrote:
Same for me, wish I !had some photos!!


Damn, can't find the XR-75 photo. Sad
So forgive me for being a year or so off here. YZ-80 A "C", I think.
BTW, since I've never been a very good jumper, I was probably shitting my pants here. hhahahhah

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FWYT wrote:
1975 ....
I was on an XR-75. Wonder if I can find a photo . . .
kevkx125 wrote:
Same for me, wish I !had some photos!!
FWYT wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2014/09/11/64901/s1200_CHIPMay1977.jpg[/img] Damn, can't find the XR-75 photo. :( So forgive me for being a year or so off here. YZ-80 A "C", I think. BTW, since...


Damn, can't find the XR-75 photo. Sad
So forgive me for being a year or so off here. YZ-80 A "C", I think.
BTW, since I've never been a very good jumper, I was probably shitting my pants here. hhahahhah

Chip Morton I also had a 1976 yz80c, first two stroke I owned loved that bike. I for sure learned how power band worked riding that bike.
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Give me just two more years....til 1977

Suzuki RM 250..Yeah Baby



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I was serious enough from the age of twelve to never be unemployed over the last 40 years so that I would have a race bike in my garage, and to raise my sons thru college with the same pride and ethics! photo's are of my first race 1/75 (Aztec, TM125) jumping pikes peak, next a mud race late 1975 pic on my YZ125C @ burthoud CO, then a pic of a few bikes that I have restored. Thanks for this post Newmann, we will be racing VMX @ Milliken this Sunday







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Racing both a 250 and 125 ( with Noguchi kit ) YZs in late 74 and 75.

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as a rider and a designer born in 74, and picked up riding in the mid 80's while following the sport religiously, it blows my mind how design and engineering has progressed since the golden age. engineers back in the day did the bare minimum as a policy. the mufflers on these bikes aren't a whole lot different from my 1st 86 yz80. thank you don and mitch for wanting better.
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i ran these then....



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hammertime wrote:
i ran these then.... [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Montesa_Cota_25_1971_01.JPG[/img] [img]https://www.dirtbikerider.us/Pics24/20070329-1175163620035-1975-Yamaha-TY80.jpg[/img]
i ran these then....



25cc Montesticle?
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hammertime wrote:
i ran these then.... [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Montesa_Cota_25_1971_01.JPG[/img] [img]https://www.dirtbikerider.us/Pics24/20070329-1175163620035-1975-Yamaha-TY80.jpg[/img]
i ran these then....



newmann wrote:
25cc Montesticle?
ya, 2 speed. had to shift with your finger. i was so small i had to rip trials bikes on the moto track.
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dynohut wrote:
I was serious enough from the age of twelve to never be unemployed over the last 40 years so that I would have a race bike...
I was serious enough from the age of twelve to never be unemployed over the last 40 years so that I would have a race bike in my garage, and to raise my sons thru college with the same pride and ethics! photo's are of my first race 1/75 (Aztec, TM125) jumping pikes peak, next a mud race late 1975 pic on my YZ125C @ burthoud CO, then a pic of a few bikes that I have restored. Thanks for this post Newmann, we will be racing VMX @ Milliken this Sunday







The whole point of this thread was to point out the options that were available back in 1975 with low priced mild mannered motocrossers(exception being the MX400 Yamaha, nothing mild about that turd) and high end racers. I see you have the 1976 MX125 next to the YZ C. Perfect example and those two bikes are on my list of must haves one day. Got any better pics of the MX?
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In 1977, I was racing a 1975 TM75 to 3rd place. Limon Colorado, Enduro race. 125cc C class. 11 years old, I was a bad MOFO!!! LOL LOL
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1975 was the year I was born… and in January of that year, Joël Robert and Gaston Rahier (who won the 125 World MX Championship on the Suzuki 125 in 1975… and the following 2 years) visited my parents at the hospital in Hamamatsu, Japan to congratulate them on their first born… ME! HAHAHA! My parents both worked for Suzuki and my dad was with Suzuki of Japan, in both the race team and R&D departments for over 41 years. From the mid-80’s on, he was over here in the US till he retired in 2003. He just turned 71 last month.
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1975 TM 100, 1976 RM 100 (with a factory RM 125 down pipe and porting to boot-fucker was fast). Then in 1977 RM 125 (1st year of the up pipe) and on it went.....sweet thread Newmann.
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MXerDW 9/11/2014 9:10pm
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I received one of these Christmas morning 1974, at age 10.
1974 Honda CR125M Elsinore

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1975,





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KEN1RO wrote:
1975 was the year I was born… and in January of that year, Joël Robert and Gaston Rahier (who won the 125 World MX Championship on...
1975 was the year I was born… and in January of that year, Joël Robert and Gaston Rahier (who won the 125 World MX Championship on the Suzuki 125 in 1975… and the following 2 years) visited my parents at the hospital in Hamamatsu, Japan to congratulate them on their first born… ME! HAHAHA! My parents both worked for Suzuki and my dad was with Suzuki of Japan, in both the race team and R&D departments for over 41 years. From the mid-80’s on, he was over here in the US till he retired in 2003. He just turned 71 last month.
Cool!

How are you yourself involved in MX? Did you get to ride all the cool works bikes?
lostboy819 9/11/2014 11:05pm
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newmann wrote:
And before someone says that is a YZ X and not a C, look at the lower legs. What is up with that oddity?
It looks like it has the C lower fork legs with the X bottles on top. Maybe when the pic was taken Yamaha was in the middle of making changes , who knows I saw a lot of strange stuff back in the 70s

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