Take off your rose coloured glasses for a min, what do you NOT miss?

Hard starting 4-strokes. 

Man...those early days... I swear if you even looked at the bike wrong it wasn't going to start 

Unreliable bikes, used to wrench for 2 hours to ride for an hour.

I had the same experience with my Airbrakes. Holy crap, changing lenses used to suck so bad. 

Steel handlebars on new bikes

Spaghetti stock chains

Handguards that mounted to the clutch perch and brake master cylinder

Seats that had an arch like an old horse back

Play dough clutch baskets and inner hubs

I kinda miss steel handlebars on bikes. If you were riding a CR with white handlebars we knew you weren't "serious." lol

I know some old-schoolers won't agree, but I am so glad to be done with carburetors. I love modern FI so damn much. 

I don't miss when race tracks were only open for organized races and never had open practices.

What!?

How can you not like perch mount handguards!?

I actually can't believe they haven't made a comeback more with all the extra stuff on handlebars these days.

Especially with ethanol gas.

Vince Friese, at least for now

The snow shovel KX rear fender. 
Aluminum frames.

(I had to change mine to what I Don’t miss)

2 strokes, saddleback, cone pipes, seeds and stems, Big Lenny.

I don't miss needing a 10mm wrench and 12mm just to remove one bolt. Or the more randomness to bolt or nut sizes on older bikes. Like 8mm bolt for side panel 12mm for seat bolt 10mm for silencer bolt. 

Bikes without safety seats

Drum brakes 

Plastic clutch n brake levers 

Jlaw posts 

Fmotp posts 

Mxgp vs ama posts

Changing altitude mid ride on a 2 stroke. Fouling a plug only to realize, you don’t have a spare. 

Rubber-band starts…ever have someone snag the band and it “came lookin for YOU!”…?

Throw away/non-rebuildable silencers 

Drum Brakes, yes…even double leading shoe

1981 YZ125 frames that fell apart 

Scott Storm-Trooper boots 

surprised not mentioned yet but the guy that used to run this forum with the cop complex. guy b something or other. 

mullets. individually applied numbers. drum brakes. 

Man, there are definitely less parts on new bikes that I’m immediately getting rid of. The steel handlebars with no bar pad 😭

1970s era Honda CR125 pistons that ran 18 hours and then scattered into the crankcase and pipe. At least it was easy to pry the pieces out of the crank, since they appeared to be made of a silver clay material.. 

Flaking electrofusion on the ports of my '89 KX 125

Broken power valves (twice) on my '89 KX 125

Exploding clutch basket on my '89 KX 125

Replacing untold number of head gaskets on my '89 KX 125

Having to replace the impeller and coolant seal every second ride on my '89 KX 125

The garbage swing arm bearing seals on my '89 KX 125

TLDR:  My '89 KX 125

Edit:  shit...it was an '88, but not editing all that.

Honestly,  my Kickstarters, and changing clutches on my kids 50 KTM like every other ride...

Obnoxiously loud 4 stroke pipes.  It seemed like every Tom, Dick, and Harry had an aftermarket pipe that would wake the dead. 

Was just about to say mid 2000’s pro sr 50’s 

Steel frames and their vanishing paint.

Seat covers that could double as slip n slides.

Subframes that would bend in a tip over.

Having to use solvent to clean my air filters.

Pilot jets.

- Mixing gas

- Pre Decoster KTM bikes

- MIllsaps helmet neck roll

- Bulky Gloves

baggy pants

helmet skins

hololenses

plastic helmets

I believe it was for a good 3-4 years there in the early 00s where they’d just constantly show crowd reactions while the leaders were battling. For like a good 5-10 seconds at a time. It was awful.

Rutledge Wood

Lite’s class