500s!!!

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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 7:31pm
Cool vid... Might have to get the dvd I think!

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ATKpilot99 12/2/2010 5:50am
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Ive got some of the 80s 500 World Championship review dvds . Good stuff.
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tiddler 12/2/2010 5:16pm
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Pretty good. The riders today couldn't handle those bikes.
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Crush 12/2/2010 6:13pm
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ATKpilot99 wrote:
Ive got some of the 80s 500 World Championship review dvds . Good stuff.
Get em up Son!!!!
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haydos25 12/2/2010 6:29pm
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tiddler wrote:
Pretty good. The riders today couldn't handle those bikes.
yeah yeah, everything was tougher in the good old days, us kids dont know how good we got it. You walked 20 k's to school in 50 degree temps up hill both ways we've heard it a million times. Get over it

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TerryK 12/2/2010 6:39pm
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haydos25 wrote:
yeah yeah, everything was tougher in the good old days, us kids dont know how good we got it. You walked 20 k's to school in...
yeah yeah, everything was tougher in the good old days, us kids dont know how good we got it. You walked 20 k's to school in 50 degree temps up hill both ways we've heard it a million times. Get over it
Lol, I'm one of those old guys and I agree with you!

Riders today are bigger, stronger, fitter and fully capable of handling those bikes. Admittedly we had longer motos, but the speeds today are waaay faster than back in the day because of the modern suspension, superior handling and more tractable engine power. Big 4 strokes are also much heavier these days and it takes strength to ride one at speed.
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ebers 12/2/2010 6:51pm
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Thank you for posting this, this reminds me why I still hang onto my 500 still. I envy those old dudes!
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JW381 12/3/2010 8:58am
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haydos25 wrote:
yeah yeah, everything was tougher in the good old days, us kids dont know how good we got it. You walked 20 k's to school in...
yeah yeah, everything was tougher in the good old days, us kids dont know how good we got it. You walked 20 k's to school in 50 degree temps up hill both ways we've heard it a million times. Get over it
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Lol, I'm one of those old guys and I agree with you! Riders today are bigger, stronger, fitter and fully capable of handling those bikes. Admittedly...
Lol, I'm one of those old guys and I agree with you!

Riders today are bigger, stronger, fitter and fully capable of handling those bikes. Admittedly we had longer motos, but the speeds today are waaay faster than back in the day because of the modern suspension, superior handling and more tractable engine power. Big 4 strokes are also much heavier these days and it takes strength to ride one at speed.
Haha I'm a youngin, and I'm gonna disagree with you. There's no way these punk kids could hand a big heavy uncontrollable beast like those 500's. Granted today's are very fit and can handle a bike at high speeds, but you practically said it yourself, it's because of modern suspension, and superior handling and more tractable engine power.
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Shawn142 12/3/2010 9:27am
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JW381 wrote:
Haha I'm a youngin, and I'm gonna disagree with you. There's no way these punk kids could hand a big heavy uncontrollable beast like those 500's...
Haha I'm a youngin, and I'm gonna disagree with you. There's no way these punk kids could hand a big heavy uncontrollable beast like those 500's. Granted today's are very fit and can handle a bike at high speeds, but you practically said it yourself, it's because of modern suspension, and superior handling and more tractable engine power.
Don't kid yourself, if 500s were all there was to race you'd still see teenagers on them. It's just a bike, not a mythical beast. Kids today could handle them just fine and I'm sure even scrub the damn things.
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Nutty C 12/3/2010 10:04am
12/3/2010 10:04am Edited Date/Time 12/3/2010 10:06am
haydos25 wrote:
yeah yeah, everything was tougher in the good old days, us kids dont know how good we got it. You walked 20 k's to school in...
yeah yeah, everything was tougher in the good old days, us kids dont know how good we got it. You walked 20 k's to school in 50 degree temps up hill both ways we've heard it a million times. Get over it
Good stuff. I was wondering when would some whipper snapper come up with this one.
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-eagle- 12/3/2010 10:10am
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Flat Tracking @ 1:00 was NASTY.
500's are awesome.
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Nutty C 12/3/2010 10:21am
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I remember when you were in the pits on a Sunday at your local race and they ran about 20 classes or so you always knew when the 500s were going off the line. They had a whole different louder sound even if there was only 12 of them.
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pilotdude 12/3/2010 10:32am
12/3/2010 10:32am Edited Date/Time 12/3/2010 10:35am
I rode a CR500AF this year in the Washougal 40+ B class against almost all 4 strokes and and doing it again in 2011.
I just decided I wanted to do something different this year and it was awesome. Every race and practice I was at I had people coming up to me asking questions about the bike. At the amateur national in July, I was sitting on the line for practice with about 80 other 40+ riders and the guy next to my on a 2010 CRF450 looked my bike up and down, looked right at me, and said "Dude, that's the sweetest bike here."
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TerryK 12/3/2010 10:33am
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JW381 wrote:
Haha I'm a youngin, and I'm gonna disagree with you. There's no way these punk kids could hand a big heavy uncontrollable beast like those 500's...
Haha I'm a youngin, and I'm gonna disagree with you. There's no way these punk kids could hand a big heavy uncontrollable beast like those 500's. Granted today's are very fit and can handle a bike at high speeds, but you practically said it yourself, it's because of modern suspension, and superior handling and more tractable engine power.
Trust me, kids today would still be racing them and doing well. When I was 19, I weighed 140lbs and was skinny as a rail and I raced a 500. My son is 18 now and weighs 170lbs and is strong as hell. My older sons are even bigger. Kids now are way bigger and stronger on average than they were 30 years ago. They could handle a 500.

And btw, you saying that 500 2 strokes are big, heavy uncontrollable beasts makes it obvious that you have either very little or no experience on these bikes. You really need to ride one before you make a judgment call like that.
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JW381 12/3/2010 10:39am
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Haha I'm a youngin, and I'm gonna disagree with you. There's no way these punk kids could hand a big heavy uncontrollable beast like those 500's...
Haha I'm a youngin, and I'm gonna disagree with you. There's no way these punk kids could hand a big heavy uncontrollable beast like those 500's. Granted today's are very fit and can handle a bike at high speeds, but you practically said it yourself, it's because of modern suspension, and superior handling and more tractable engine power.
Shawn142 wrote:
Don't kid yourself, if 500s were all there was to race you'd still see teenagers on them. It's just a bike, not a mythical beast. Kids...
Don't kid yourself, if 500s were all there was to race you'd still see teenagers on them. It's just a bike, not a mythical beast. Kids today could handle them just fine and I'm sure even scrub the damn things.
Not sayin you wouldn't see teenagers on them, but all these spodes that show up on old ass CRF450's, trying to huck the big double are gonna end up looping to the clouds haha. I just think the riders that rode those as hard and as long as they did back in the day were way more burly and badass than some kid running out of his mom and dad's toy hauler for 15 minutes on a 250F.
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Nutty C 12/3/2010 11:15am
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JW381 wrote:
Not sayin you wouldn't see teenagers on them, but all these spodes that show up on old ass CRF450's, trying to huck the big double are...
Not sayin you wouldn't see teenagers on them, but all these spodes that show up on old ass CRF450's, trying to huck the big double are gonna end up looping to the clouds haha. I just think the riders that rode those as hard and as long as they did back in the day were way more burly and badass than some kid running out of his mom and dad's toy hauler for 15 minutes on a 250F.
Don't forget the 200 thousand dollar motor home that pulled that trailer and took up half the pit area.
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burn1986 12/3/2010 12:18pm
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There's no doubt they would be able to handle them. I would just like to see the current 450 riders on the 500s.
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Dropbear 12/3/2010 12:26pm
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I was at the Namur and Cingoli 500 GP's (Cingoli, Italy was where Billy Liles broke his leg on the drop off Sad ) in 1990. They were great days and 500's were king.

I was hoping to see Leisk win a World Title but an injury put a stop to that.

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