Best looking stock bike of all time?

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burn1986 4/3/2015 7:41am
4/3/2015 7:41am Edited Date/Time 4/3/2015 7:41am
Flex wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2015/04/02/85991/s1200_damnnn.jpg[/img]


dirtaddict wrote:
Game over
Front fender - yuk. All the rest - almost game over.
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Luke_Himler 4/3/2015 8:23am
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This was one of the first bikes that came with a RACE look from the Factory IMO!
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My first love.......
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karsmakers wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2015/04/02/85968/s1200_79CR250RLH.jpg[/img]


I'll trade you that "before" picture above for a couple of "finished" pictures below.

Same bike after a year and a half of hard work.

dogger




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Forty 4/3/2015 9:04am
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Myke wrote:
Now we can end the thread: [img]http://cdn.motocross.transworld.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/441/files/hopetown-kick/2013_hopetown_reunion_kickstart_915.jpg[/img]
Now we can end the thread:

This is it..game over...every part of it says motocross. Some of the late 70s KTM had the same profile, twin shock/conical hubs/leading axle fork/air cooled......gives me good bumps.

That 76 RM is a great looking bike.....I wanted one of them so bad I would have done murder for it.....well, maybe not murder for it, but pushed somebody down for it.
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Uncle Tony 4/3/2015 9:14am
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You haven't raced motocross till you race a maico
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Bultaco 4/3/2015 9:20am
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dogger315 wrote:
I'll trade you that "before" picture above for a couple of "finished" pictures below. Same bike after a year and a half of hard work. dogger...
I'll trade you that "before" picture above for a couple of "finished" pictures below.

Same bike after a year and a half of hard work.

dogger




The finished one is perfect, isn't it. Tongue
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mach6972 4/3/2015 10:06am
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79 Yamaha with my 100cc engine,Fox Shock,Simmons forks RPM motor.
Wasatch Rider 4/3/2015 10:46am
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mach6972 wrote:
79 Yamaha with my 100cc engine,Fox Shock,Simmons forks RPM motor.
I had that exact same bike with Fox Air Shox. Same forks, RPM porting etc.

SOOOO Much fun.
Wasatch Rider 4/3/2015 10:48am
4/3/2015 10:48am
MyersAvionics wrote:
[img]http://themotoauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/Husaberg-TE250-stock-full-view.jpg[/img] This is the best looking and best performing bike i have ever bought. This is followed closely by it's white twin with linkage suspension.


This is the best looking and best performing bike i have ever bought. This is followed closely by it's white twin with linkage suspension.
Thats in the TM level of sexy bikes.

Clean scoot. Really clean.
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herbs906 4/3/2015 10:55am
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rcannon wrote:
I always loved the 78 yz 125, or 250. In a way, they were the first long travel suspension bikes most of us got to see...
I always loved the 78 yz 125, or 250. In a way, they were the first long travel suspension bikes most of us got to see.

You walked into the Yamaha showroom and suddenly seat heights got six inches taller than they were the year before. Your 1975 bike looked old and short, real fast.


My neighbor had this 1980 YZ125...dude I wanted that thing soooo bad! When I heard him out in the field riding id fly down there on my bike and just watch. Badass bike!
The Source 4/3/2015 11:42am
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Myke wrote:
Now we can end the thread: [img]http://cdn.motocross.transworld.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/441/files/hopetown-kick/2013_hopetown_reunion_kickstart_915.jpg[/img]
Now we can end the thread:

Forty wrote:
This is it..game over...every part of it says motocross. Some of the late 70s KTM had the same profile, twin shock/conical hubs/leading axle fork/air cooled......gives me...
This is it..game over...every part of it says motocross. Some of the late 70s KTM had the same profile, twin shock/conical hubs/leading axle fork/air cooled......gives me good bumps.

That 76 RM is a great looking bike.....I wanted one of them so bad I would have done murder for it.....well, maybe not murder for it, but pushed somebody down for it.
No doubt the dominate bike in big bore twin shock class. The 82 was a disaster transition bike. The 83 was the King with redesigned bottom end with gear drive primary, Ohlin rear shock upgrade but outdated in the class it runs in today.
GeorgiePorgie 4/3/2015 11:45am
4/3/2015 11:45am
Torco1 wrote:
[img]https://georgiaoffroad.com/images/dirtbikes/honda/cr/1137968318_1996hondacr250.jpg[/img]
Ahhhhhh. Mmmmmmmn.
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7warpig7 4/3/2015 11:46am
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Seamorbutts wrote:
Look guys, lets be real, I can appreciate a collectors item as well, but thats what they are. Those old bikes are fugly as horse shit...
Look guys, lets be real, I can appreciate a collectors item as well, but thats what they are. Those old bikes are fugly as horse shit, and I grew up racing in the 70's/80's. The bikes now look 10x better. I get the sentimental thing though. lol

Next time instead of saying best looking bike of all time, say coolest bike of all time, or favorite.
100% disagreement. When Jackson Pollack wannabe's took over the MX graphics departments everything when downhill really fast and they haven't recovered since. All the best looking bikes came out between roughly 1975 and 1990. Same with riding gear.

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mach6972 4/3/2015 11:51am
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rcannon wrote:
I always loved the 78 yz 125, or 250. In a way, they were the first long travel suspension bikes most of us got to see...
I always loved the 78 yz 125, or 250. In a way, they were the first long travel suspension bikes most of us got to see.

You walked into the Yamaha showroom and suddenly seat heights got six inches taller than they were the year before. Your 1975 bike looked old and short, real fast.
herbs906 wrote:
[img]http://p1.bikepics.com/2009/10/03/bikepics-1794931-800.jpg[/img] My neighbor had this 1980 YZ125...dude I wanted that thing soooo bad! When I heard him out in the field riding id fly down there...


My neighbor had this 1980 YZ125...dude I wanted that thing soooo bad! When I heard him out in the field riding id fly down there on my bike and just watch. Badass bike!
that is a 1979 model
Craig_Lambrecht 4/3/2015 12:23pm
4/3/2015 12:23pm
slipdog wrote:
Thought you knew???? [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2015/04/02/85969/s1200_YZinger.jpg[/img]
Thought you knew????



Haha this was my first bike. '81
It's still going round n round. My niece has it now.
Hopefully one day I'll have a child and he/she will get it as a first bike
Craig_Lambrecht 4/3/2015 12:23pm
4/3/2015 12:23pm
Flex wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2015/04/02/85991/s1200_damnnn.jpg[/img]


dirtaddict wrote:
Game over
burn1986 wrote:
Front fender - yuk. All the rest - almost game over.
Agreed. I HATE their front fenders
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skidmarkz 4/3/2015 1:06pm
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rcannon wrote:
I always loved the 78 yz 125, or 250. In a way, they were the first long travel suspension bikes most of us got to see...
I always loved the 78 yz 125, or 250. In a way, they were the first long travel suspension bikes most of us got to see.

You walked into the Yamaha showroom and suddenly seat heights got six inches taller than they were the year before. Your 1975 bike looked old and short, real fast.
herbs906 wrote:
[img]http://p1.bikepics.com/2009/10/03/bikepics-1794931-800.jpg[/img] My neighbor had this 1980 YZ125...dude I wanted that thing soooo bad! When I heard him out in the field riding id fly down there...


My neighbor had this 1980 YZ125...dude I wanted that thing soooo bad! When I heard him out in the field riding id fly down there on my bike and just watch. Badass bike!
mach6972 wrote:
that is a 1979 model
Negative ghostrider, that IS a 1980 yz 125G.

This is a 1979 yz125F;

http://www.pulpmx.com/stories/look-back-old-moto-mags/gps-classic-steel…
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gt80rider 4/3/2015 1:41pm
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The Source wrote:
1983 Maico 490 Now, end of thread. Nuff said! [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2015/04/03/86091/s1200_maico.jpg[/img]
1983 Maico 490
Now, end of thread. Nuff said!


This is the correct answer
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queen of spodes wrote:
Loved the late 90's Can-Ams: [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2015/04/03/86127/s1200_can_am_001.jpg[/img] Fell in love with the '86 RM's (Thanks Judy McCormick) [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2015/04/03/86128/s1200_1986_RM80_RM125_RM250_Brochure_3.jpg[/img]
Loved the late 90's Can-Ams:


Fell in love with the '86 RM's (Thanks Judy McCormick)


Never did care for the '86-'87 RM. looked like a swayback horse.

I did however dig the '88 and owned one. Great bike!

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