The original "AF"

[ShanMan]

pretty sure THIS was the original AF:

Gregg Primm's collection?

you betcha! Good eye.

[redrocket190]

pretty sure THIS was the original AF:

Gregg Primm's collection?

you betcha! Good eye.

[AJ]

shannon,
unless its bruce zimmermans , it wouldnt be.?


who built that bike pictued in primms museam ?

(pretty sure i built the one that is dressed up like everts 1999AF bike )

G. primm has bought about 3 AF's off of SH..


First conversion bike ,that was called a CR500AF , 1998

[britincali]

I think its great that the first one was built in your kitchen

[ShanMan]

AJ,

Pretty sure I read somewhere that the bike I posted a picture of was built by Rick Daughty and a few others. Rick now owns and operated Vintage Iron in Yorba Linda, CA.

[redrocket190]

While it is true Rick Doughty is very tight with Greg Primm, I am going to go out on a limb and say the pic is of a GP bike built in Europe...I can't remember who for.

[AJ]

Shannon,
could be? I know rick has done all kinds of stuff for sure, ,but my guess is that bike was a bit later.

[ShanMan]

guys...just going off the article that was written and published in a moto mag back in the day. They were very specific about how they came to use the Ohlins suspension, the paint job...everything. I believe they mentioned that that bike may have been an attempt to build the bike for limited rate production or something, but that the bike wound up costing a ton to build, etc. etc. They also mention that the chassis was a '98, but the bike was finished in early '99. It may not have been the FIRST conversion, but it's a damned bit closer than the Bailey works bike shown earlier.

[AJ]

redrocket- and shanman..

hard to tell from the pic..
bu t American Honda /HRC built a 1999 500AF bike for stefen everts to race in his home GP in belgium at the end of the 99? season..
(his season was over in the 250GP's)
He won it 1-1
AH/HRC had contacted me to build it..
they had one of my bikes at the time, and ended up building thier own very trick machine for stefen to use
( i dont recall who did the actual frame work,,my guess is *in house* as they have plenty of folks capable at HRC)
and of course it had some serious dollars invested in the suspension engine etc.. a very cool bike.

that photo reminds me of it for sure, MXA tested it.
and had it on their magazine cover, back then.
I have the mag/article still
if its that bike , it was built in 1999 ... and there had been hundreds of AFs built by then ..
including rob herrings 98 in the GP's..

but yes certainly closer than the RC500AF..
which was way way ahead of its time, and a very cool bike!

[ShanMan]

see....I learn me sumtin' every day!

[AlisoBob]

see....I learn me sumtin' every day!

[ShanMan]

Man, you're like the robot Bumble Bee who can only communicate through what's playin' on the radio! LOL!!!

[AlisoBob]

[Roostius_Maximus]

I seen a picture of a 250 in the 80's that had a complete af that was shaped identical to the steel frame, even had an aluminum tank