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Penton 125 trials bike
Wish I still had them!
I rode a Cagiva 125 back about 1988. It had one front fork handling compression and the other handling rebound if I remember correctly. All the components on that bike seemed to be very high quality.
Penton 125 with a Sachs engine. Every time you landed off of a jump the chain adjuster bent or broke. Not rare but unusual.
The Shop
But I started with tihs:
Then I had this:
Then this:
Then the Cagiva you posted and then several japs!
Heavy, slow and amazingly enough a really unstable front end. Damn near crashed my brains out on it when I took my hands off the bars for a very brief moment.
Guy had this thing up at Muddy Creek, I just rode around the pits and up on the hill behind where you parked back then, Thing had the craziest power delivery, Had a crazy strong surge and then a big hiccup, I guess from the fuel injection they hadn't figured out yet !
125CR Husqvarna
125 Monark bought one of these after having a CZ 250. I seemed so light after the CZ
I've had a bunch of weird bikes, I've always had a soft spot for them.
02 TM 400MX
08 Aprilia MXV450
10 Husky CR125/144/165
10 Husky WR300
11 TM 450MX Fi
13 TM 250MX
14 TM 144MX
14 TM 250MX
There's not much weird about the Husky 125 or any of the newer TM's, just not very mainstream.
Pit Row
One of my 125's shat itself twice and the 250 not long after, but daaayum I loved the 125, (the one that actually ran).
I forgot about this failed experiment also cannon dale was a hour away from the shop I worked at so they would bring them down for us to ride/race to endurance test them , and what could be fixed on them
Raced flatrack on a astro 360 for 2 yrs in mid 70s,very cool bike,rightside shift and brake.
Trials on the Yamaha bikes in what,75 i think. That was fun but not a rush,not fast,like I like.
Dad raced the 430 husky auto in hare scrambles ,rode it a lot tuning it for him,be a great mud bike.
The shop I hung at in the 70s sold Yamaha,Suzuki,and Honda so got to race all that came out from 74 to 79.
A rare one was the 73 500sc, I think that was the letters,torque was it,loved the grey. Still have my 73 360.
I had a 76/77? pursang with the dirt track astro motor so i just took out the orig mtr and put the
very fast peaky one in.
Only raced it a few times, didnt want to get the rest of it up to scratch to race and sold all the Bultacos
i had at the time (31/2) as 1 lot..
I would include a picture however it is in dry storage and I would have to work to hard to get the picture.......the last time I rode it - it spun the woodruff key...grrr.... turned out the taper on the crank and the magneto were not the same. BMW did not have a fix!! 2010 was the last year before they spun this effort of to Husky.
It is a beautiful bike.........
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