89 YZ490 Rebuild

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vmx3 4/13/2016 7:30am
4/13/2016 7:30am
I got the frame back last week and worked on all last week to get it ready for Indy SX legends and heroes display





































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Tim507 4/13/2016 3:02pm
4/13/2016 3:02pm
Very nice...I raced the 465 and 490's for years. The dreaded YamaHop was always just a split second away if you chopped the throttle at the wrong time.

All the time a raced them I was a feather weightWoohoo talk about a wild rideSilly
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Tgo 4/14/2016 9:42am
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Rory's bikes were my inspiration. Specially the WR500. I love those bikes too.
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vmx3 4/14/2016 6:52pm
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Tgo wrote:
Rory's bikes were my inspiration. Specially the WR500. I love those bikes too.
wow, thanks dude

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mxracer106 4/14/2016 7:34pm
4/14/2016 7:34pm
She's a beauty...good work Rory!!
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flinthills 4/15/2016 8:16am
4/15/2016 8:16am
Good looking! Did you use ufo plastics and a Clarke tank?
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vmx3 4/15/2016 9:50pm
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mxracer106 wrote:
She's a beauty...good work Rory!!
Thanks dude, I didn't go all out with it as I just want something to ride but I am happy with it
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vmx3 4/15/2016 9:51pm
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The Tank, Front # plate and fenders are Yamaha, the side panels are UFO
classicdirtbikerider.com 5/2/2016 2:11am
5/2/2016 2:11am
What a great story, it`s always nice to see a bike transformed from worn out back to show standard. The old YZ490 is getting more & more popular every year over here in England, there must be 100s of photos of them in action on the gallery page at www.classicdirtbikerider.com I even wrote quite a long & detailed article about the production history of the old air hammer, it`s still up on the features page if any one wants to read it. All the best, Mr J



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vmx3 5/2/2016 6:40am
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classicdirtbikerider.com wrote:
What a great story, it`s always nice to see a bike transformed from worn out back to show standard. The old YZ490 is getting more &...
What a great story, it`s always nice to see a bike transformed from worn out back to show standard. The old YZ490 is getting more & more popular every year over here in England, there must be 100s of photos of them in action on the gallery page at www.classicdirtbikerider.com I even wrote quite a long & detailed article about the production history of the old air hammer, it`s still up on the features page if any one wants to read it. All the best, Mr J



Yeah the first year we went over (2012), there were us 3 and 2 others(a guy from Swedenand an English guy) now there is a bunch although we had 6 riders last year and this year it will be 7, so our team is a big chunck of them but there is still way more than there used to be. I read that piece that you did on the 490 and it was cool, I also saw the piece you did on Farleigh 2015, there were some photos of us in that and I was wondering how I could get some copies of them, I couldn't find an email address on the website at the time.

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