This is for you Winn baby!

WB
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Monday, January 31, 2022, 16:48 (1648 days ago)

And me of course. Yesterday a school friend died. His wife found him dead in his recliner like he had simply fell asleep and expired peacefully.

Screw that! AHRMA has a National Trials and Hare Scrambles this spring. “Getting your nuts bitten off by a Laplander, that’s a man’s way to go!” - Leslie Neilson - Naked Gun

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Wow! It's Steve McQueen!...or my older brother...

Southern Boy
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Monday, January 31, 2022, 17:02 (1648 days ago) @ WB

Yamaha wanted him to ride for them waaay back. I could maybe get the front wheel up with my bike if I hit a ramp at 50. Spare kidneys not included.

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I’ve seen those advertised. Cool. Many

WB
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Monday, January 31, 2022, 17:09 (1648 days ago) @ Southern Boy

Of the misfits ride, used to ride, have memories of a hot flathead festooned with Strombergs etc. Real men’s men, the misfits! Young, old, even our ladies!

My days of riding 30K per year are gone with

Southern Boy
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Monday, January 31, 2022, 17:30 (1648 days ago) @ WB

the aggressive arthritis. Wish I could still handle a dirt bike.

This little 250lb 250cc bike is about all I can handle. Some Chinese copy of a Honda single 4-stroke with pushrods and Keihin carb, oil filter is a screen. Simple. Most all the rest is done by Amish 2nd/3rd tier parts supplier, tank welded up by Amish boys not old enough for a buggy license.

Tear'em up this spring. Do it while you still can.

PS- my first bike was a 45. When I was a kid,

Southern Boy
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Monday, January 31, 2022, 17:44 (1648 days ago) @ Southern Boy

folk were still entering them in scrambles. Every kind of bike imaginable lined up across a field waiting for the flag to drop, and a lot of those ex-GIs would still wheel a 45 cross country in an impressive manner.

I can now know you had a great birthday

Winn
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Monday, January 31, 2022, 18:45 (1648 days ago) @ WB

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Yaaa, Happy Birthday

steve todd
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Monday, January 31, 2022, 19:29 (1648 days ago) @ Winn

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Nice IT.

ChrisG
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Monday, January 31, 2022, 20:26 (1648 days ago) @ WB

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My mother passed a couple years ago and I had

WB
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Tuesday, February 01, 2022, 09:13 (1647 days ago) @ ChrisG

some health issues, business issues, lots of pressure and stress. I bought that 1982 for $500 and spent about $1000 on it restoring it to competition condition. The gas tank split and that alone cost $275 for a replacement. I ran it in a Hare Scrambles AHRMA National in 2018. Crashed twice, the idle screw fell out of the carb making a air rich hole in the side. But I finished. It was a real nice diversion and helped my mental state. It still does. lol I graduated high school in 1981 so time wise it is a nice fit. I'm able to run in 200cc (175) class Post-vintage. She only weighs about 200 lbs. so it's really nice in the thick woods.

I remember when those monoshock wonders

Southern Boy
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Tuesday, February 01, 2022, 09:48 (1647 days ago) @ WB

came out, I think the YZ? My mid-1970s XT still had dual rear. That is a bike I miss, Rode it from Mississippi down to the Keys and back, dirt roads as much as possible. You picked a great stress buster, Buster.

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