Very cool ! Re-badged or not, nothing like an exotic sitting in your truck or trailer ready for a ride. Especially if all your friends are riding generic Japanese bikes.
I guess you're right but I was referring to an old vintage name that we old guys are familiar with. I know the AJPs are cool too you are proving that singlehandedly and single track as well. You take some good pictures too while out there. Hope they are selling quite well, if so they will become familiar to us all too. The more European variety to choose from the better. Good or bad, I wouldn't be caught dead riding, or even pay attention to any Japanese bikes personally, so I have always liked the options.
Roger De Coster entered the international scene on the CZ Team with Joel Robert and Sylvian Geboers (Go bears). Then he was snatched up by Suzuki to develop the bikes that would put them on the world map in MX. Sound familiar? They always looked so primitive and cool. Had there own sound too.
i grant you AJP s are rare [still] but i think there's a price requirement for real exotic's AJPs don't meat it HOPE THERE SELLIN LIKE CRAZY
Yes I'd agree and say there is and was a price requirement to buy a true exotic. Back in the days of buying a few of my Vintage Maico's in the mid to late 70's. I could have bought damned near 2 Honda's for the price of a new 400 Maico. Or damned close. The Maico's seemed to have about 1/2 as many total parts as well when completely disassembled as it was designed to have 1 part or each bracket do more than 1 thing. Which led to less parts breakage. Nothing cheap on them. No stamped gusseting or bracing anywhere either on the frames like the cheap Jap bikes had, just simplicity and great craftsmanship. I kind of got into the welding trade itself repairing Jap bikes in High School long before I had a drivers license. Long before that, When I was about 10 to 12 years old, I myself always paid extra to ride a "Schwinn Stingray" bicycle too, while I just laughed at anyone riding a "Huffy". My parents never bought me a bicycle when I was a kid and I never had a paper route to earn the money either. I walked with my dignity and pride until I saved the cash to buy my own Schwinn's. I still remember the serial numbers of these bikes to this day. The one that got stolen was #LD 19236. I got it back a week later and kicked the guys ass. Then he was doing the walking, with a limp I might add
Dad raced one back in the day. Told me there was a bolt on the bottom of the engine to drain gas out of it when it flooded, which was supposedly not uncommon. In fact I own the van that he originally bought to haul it in bank in 70'. Still use it for riding and racing, and camping to this day.
thats kool i remember my dads first biker van old cabover chevy ,5 slot us mags big wide micky thomson indy profiles a neat custom stripe and a stylized american flag on the hood
