First bike

britincali · Post by **britincali** » February 5th, 2012, 5:12 pm

Digging through old stuff came across this, 1983 YZ490 bought for 50 quid ($70) no spark had me stumped for awhile until I swapped the magneto

1995, I was 15......

Post by **AlisoBob** » February 5th, 2012, 6:31 pm

britincali wrote: I was 15......

How many beers ago was that?

The first bike I ever rode: Indian 50. It was my friend Charlies...

First bike I ever owned: Taco Minibike

If I could find it, I'd prolly' trade my A/F strait across....

pstoffers · Post by **pstoffers** » February 5th, 2012, 6:42 pm

I had that same Taco boB

britincali · Post by **britincali** » February 5th, 2012, 6:50 pm

First bike I ever rode was a 70's suzuki A100, we thought it was the shit in a field with bald cracked street tires

other · Post by **other** » February 5th, 2012, 9:15 pm

Ahhhh, the ole YZ brings back memories, especially that twin leading shoe front drum brake. In the dry, worked as well as most disc brakes, in the wet (and I lived in England, so it was ALWAYS wet) . . . . well I reckon the "ohfuckohfuckohfuckingshit" inside the helmet had as much slowing effect as the brake did ! Mine was only a 125 chassis, with a DT200 engine, so I can only imagine how much scarier the 490 was with the same brake setup ! I bought a disc braked 490 years later, and my lasting memoty of that was the Godawful noise the bugger made, as those great big cooling fins resonated. On a freshly rebuilt engine, you'd swear there was a bag of nails rattling around on the top of the piston !

Tharrell · Post by **Tharrell** » February 6th, 2012, 5:07 am

This is on the swapmeet today and it's in your part of the country.
Get it and do some vintage racing.

http://www.vintagemx.us/cgi-bin/largeph ... 6XjB9zYGTQ

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