Check out Malcom's bike....

Malcolm Smith getting ready to start the 2012 NORRA Mexican 1000

Air cooled 2 stroke- is this unobtainium????



Check out the photo here, it's cool at a minimum...


(photo by Al Leahy, from advrider.com)
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Funny he uses Cycra hand guards instead of MSR!

No, I don't, bummer. Not my picture to begin with, used with permission from the owner Al Leahy. Maybe he can chime in if he has any more...

Here is his son Alexander coming into the end of the first special

And Allan chimes in

WR 430

http://norra.com/results_2012.php?page=byclass

please note the OA moto times the Smith 430 looks to have finished 2nd OA all classes.

WOW- racing in the 1976-1984 class too!

George helped him get the bike ready. The 511 in the race only made it 200 miles or so.

COOLer than COOL looking bike and set up! Bet that thing feels buttery smooth.

I am guessing George didn't prep the 511 and probably there are multitudes of unforseen things that can and will go wrong even with the best of em' with any and all preparations. Having George and Malcom together on a project though- what could go wrong and who'd stand in the way of their success- I assume the desert cactus just bowed as The Smiths passed by on that bike.

Very impressive effort and results, no doubt.

Yah, sweet photos, thanks guys. I had heard that the 511 died fast. I wonder what it died of!!! As far as mistakes from the factory, they are there, I am living one right now on a 2009 TE450 with under 600 miles.
Definitely falls under factory and not prep!!!

George is one shop that has parts around for bikes like that and has the jetting specs handy or in memory. Maybe Ron Bishop too.

I'd got the impression that Malcolm waved the flag for other brands a bit more fervently these days, so I'm pleased to see him riding a Husky, even if it is an ancient one.

What got loose, a bearing?

would those cycra handguards fit a txc 310