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Beta is #1 for trials nowadays. GasGas = KTM = Bajaj. 'Nuff said. Sherco is too small, may be here next year, may be not. Unless you're 5'5 and 120 pounds, a 200cc or 250 would be best. Stay away from 300cc, it's actually much harder to ride (high compression, stalls easier etc). Only Pros put a lot of time and wear on trials bikes -- anything less than 10 years old is OK.

The ugly OE KTM bolts are a great justification for Ti! That’s how I justify it to myself at least.

How much is the employee discount for the new 2-stroke?

Pet insurance?!? Damn!

Not an American, but I absolutely can't ride a MTB with the left lever being the front brake. 😱

My ‘78 RM80 that replaced the XR75

That’s me on my brother’s bike. I think it was a 73 gt80mx. Later on this bike got a J&R expansion chamber. It was a down pipe. Also removed the air box and put one of those filters right on the end of the carb. And of course lower and wider bars I did not get my XR75 until ‘78

After I didn't get a Sting Ray or a Z50, I did finally get a motorcycle. But as always it was not a great bike. But it was a dirt bike and I loved it. Pushed it across the street to a field behind a Levitz furniture store in North Highlands California. This photo was back in 1969.

I went from that Triumph in 1969 to a beater Honda CB160 to my first race on my dad's BSA in 1972 to my first real MX bike a Suzuki TM250 in 1974 to a Suzuki RM250 to a Yamaha YZ250. From 1966 - 1980 was the best time of my life.

Don't have a lot of photos of me, a fewer handy not scanned. Like a lot of folks here started on the Stingray, then in order, bought that beat Bultaco in a box around 73 and rebuilt it with a friend in High School metal shop, then to the Maico, then the Ossa, then a Husky 390 (no pics of that).

I wanted one of these when I was a kid , I still think they are really cool. A little pricey these days though.😆

They had double headers for a multitude of reasons. Yes, they filled the stands. Mainly it helped fill the promoter's pockets because you could have a 12 race series and only have to build 7 or 8 tracks. Not having to deal with so many locations cut down expenses. And it kept the series in a shorter time span so it started later in the year after the Florida Winter Series or the Golden State series so the riders had time to get in shape and sort out the bikes. It also didn't run into the Outdoors which at the...

1977 Greatest day of my life