Official Vintage Bike pic thread... post'em here

[Jontey]

A few years back I built a vintage bike... after being away from racing for many years. It was started as a fun low-budget project and slowly turned out quite a bit different!!

Here are some photos of the bike (which was just sold)

Only thing that bike is missing is an old DPA chain guide.  

[Helmut Clasen]

Very nice job.
Gratulations...

[dogger315]

I must have missed this thread the first time around,
some very nice rides!  Kind of like a vintage eye
candy store.

Here are some pictures of my two vintage Hondas.
These were the first two bikes I had ever restored
starting with the '73.

dogger

[Coop]

Beautiful bikes!

[JETZcorp]

It's amazing how much change was made in such a short time.  The amount of time that separates those two bikes is similar to the amount of time separating identical modern YZs.  Just imagine what would happen if such rapid development today.  We'd be using tires with magnets instead of air pressure!

[opfermanmotors]

It's amazing how much change was made in such a short time.  The amount of time that separates those two bikes is similar to the amount of time separating identical modern YZs.  Just imagine what would happen if such rapid development today.  We'd be using tires with magnets instead of air pressure!

Even though one is a 73 and the other is a 79, you could argue that they could represent a 1976 and 1978 at least in looks and height, so its really only 2 years apart.

[JETZcorp]

Well, maybe in Honda Land that's true.  But I can name at least one factory that had just about doubled its suspension travel by the time the 1976 model year came about.  For fairness, I should mention that this same company was a few inches behind the leaders by 1979.

[opfermanmotors]

Sure, but thats what the original comment was looking at.

This is a 76 I had like 20 years ago, before I got it running.


The bike was actually submerged and the crank case was full of mud.  I used a garden hose to clean it out.  The points were bad but I drilled holes into a magneto + CDI unit from a 1981 CR250 and bolted it on.  It did some nasty kick back sometimes, but it actually ran, timing was prolly a tad bit advanced from what it should have been.  We painted the frame flouresent orange.  Bent back shock, bent rim, dry rot front tires and no breaks.  I took that thing wide open 5th gear down the road, rear tire wobbling all over the place.  Then I sold it for $200 because the crank bearings were pretty bad in it and the front sprocket was welded on.  

Anyhow, here's anoter vintage bike.

[JETZcorp]

Can't say I've ever seen yellow like that on the fenders.  But like I've said before, everything I've heard says the '86 is a winner in the performance department.  "It will stay with anyone, on any bike, on any road or trail, on any day, anytime of the year" is a rough paraphrase.  That's an exaggeration, of course, because there are people on this planet that can take a Harley Davidson and tear people up in places you'd never think possible.  But still, it obviously made an impression.

[opfermanmotors]

The fenders are essentially custom.  I bought the bike from DC Plastics, they basically riveted a cut out of a yellow fender over top of the red fender.

[factoryX]

I would not click any of those links...

[Coop]

I would not click any of those links...

I have deleted that guys post 3 times and he just keeps reposting the same thing. It's getting annoying...

[factoryX]

[opfermanmotors]

He's banned.  Everyone wants to mess with this thread