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Fresh out of the crate before they installed the Fox Air Shocks.
https://dirtbikemagazine.com/two-stroke-tuesday-on-the-line-racing-cr12…
"This machine was the brainchild of Terry Good and was inspired by the works Suzukis piloted by Roger DeCoster in the early ’70s. At 167 lb. this just might be the lightest CR125R ever built and no one knows exactly how much it cost. Not even Terry.
"Yep that’s a Mugen top-end and just about every fastener you see is titanium. Those aren’t carbon fiber graphics, the fenders, radiator shrouds, tank, airbox and number plates are actual carbon fiber. This saved another almost 9 pounds but was very, very expensive.
"Not just anyone can build a bike like this. Many of the parts were HRC leftovers. Some parts, like the right-side-up forks weren’t even found on works bikes of the era. 911 MX Shop supplied loads of titanium that would ultimately lose 6.5 pounds compared OEM.
"The pipe was hand-built by Don Emler himself at his Flying Machine Factory. Made with 47 cones out of special 22-gauge steel saving another 1.75 pounds. The four-inch long FMF silencer was loud but saved another half pound.
"The man that inspired the build just happened to be on staff at Dirt Bike Magazine in 1994. Roger DeCoster is to this day still one of a very select group of people to ride this machine."
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As far as production bikes I have not had, probably a 75 YZ250 or 360B, the first year mono shock. Kind of the first "factory edition" limited release models on top of the standard production bikes, pretty unobtanium feel to non expert riders.
honorable mention:
The reason to this day I still own hondas.
Honorable mention.
More than a paper route to needed finance those machines
Lust
One of those it's so different and unique it can't not be cool bikes, also belongs in the 'what could have been' category. 55hp, fuel injected, sometimes compression ignition, 400cc two stroke, all back in the early 90's. And from a company that supposedly hated two-strokes.
And the production bike that shared some of that tech, '97-'99 CRM250AR:
Pit Row
Also my dad had a 01 KX 125 when i was 5yo...
Bulletproof bike. Always ridden kawis if not for my yz 125. I wish they would produce kx 250’s... my next bike is probably gonna be a 250 2 smoke and i don’t want to bike a yz, but the kawis are too old bikes.
Damn it.
There is something about those hi-rev small bore and the exoticness (is that even a word??) Of those TM.
2017 TM Factory racing MX 250fi of Samuele Bernardini
Calvin Vlaanderen HRC CRF 250 from last season
And of course some 2-smoke
From a dude that seemed to have no fear at all. Crikey. What was it like?
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