Memory Lane - blasts from the past....

I thought it best to create this thread rather than continue the hijacking of the 'HUSQVARNA Vintage for sale in the world' thread which I inadvertently started....

"Yes I was a kid & could only dream of owning a CZ, Husky, Elsinore, etc....But I knew lots of people who was racing them & was able to go to the races with them. The 70's were THE era of Motoross bikes that I dreamed about. Remember those little scaled down Elsinore & YZ 100's. Mini works bikes that I drooled over."

oh yeah, the Elsinores, I discovered the MR50 about 5 years too late, what a lovely little mini motocrosser they were.
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Here is buddy of mine back in olden days on his Wetzel Husky #388

Here is a couple pics of me back in day on my 82 Cr 430, #707

I changed color scheme to the white, blue and yellow.

I took off on that Husky once from a dead engine start. Bike kicked back and without knowing, engine was running backwards. Soon as I let clutch out, bike went backwards and I went over the bars! Boy did I get a surprise !

very cool !
thx for sharing man

I am quite envious of those pics of yours mate, we moved house so many times when I was growing up, old photos never quite kept up somehow....maybe through the necessity of travelling light, I don't know

Then, unconsciously keeping that trend going, I ended up (and still do) working for an international airline who have had me living all over Europe, the oldest pics I have are from early 2004....probably when I got my first digital camera

Living in London UK now but going home to Australia for a holiday next week so I will ask my older bro & sisters if they have any pics of my early riding days on my Z50, XR75, YZ125C and RM 125A

Who could forget the Cool Snail Pipe?

Those were bad in those days! First ones I saw was on CZ's

Rossik,

Dig as many as you can to post. These old pics are neat!

This is where it all started. Me on my 1974 TM 100. We had a hospital called Timken Mercy close by. So that what we said the TM stood for!

Will do mate, fingers crossed !

I will also speak to an English mate of mine at work, whose wife if from the Czech Republic, and coincidentally, her uncle back in CZ was a mechanic on the early CZ mx'ers so I'll see if he can also come up with some pics..........

Hey you're right, this is a cool idea !!!

funny story )

oh wow, the cross-up !!! how cool was it if you could do one of those I remember the first one I tried, worked a treat until I landed in the same shape - was so excited about it I forgot to straighten up for the landing

in the second pic you look so small on the bike ....or maybe it's just that the front wheel looks so big

Funny! Think I was small. When I landed, I probably smashed the pipe again.

My buddy had a TM125.....I had a MT125Elsinore with the lights ripped off. My bike was down on power but where we rode it was pretty flat, so being around 100LBS & geared right I could run neck & neck with him. Besides I was used to running non racing bikes as I had a SL70 (with the lights ripped off) while the other kids had MX80's & Then Xr75's. Like we said...I could only dream of the real MX bikes. My first real racebike was a 1980 YZ125. I was really fast then having a bike that handled well.

I still find myself riding my 430 like a 125.....working myself way harder than needed with all that power on tap.

I had a mate who owned a TM75, that was when I had my Z50, and I used to really love the look of the TMs......had a poster of a TM400 in my room - think they must have been widow makers in their day

Then I saw On Any Sunday.....that film struck a chord with Jeff Ward wheeling through the intro on a Z50 so he was quite inspirational for me. Naturally my next bike was an XR75 and though they were costly, I saved my pocket money to buy some JWRP bits for it...... as cool as it was though, when the first YZ & RM80s came out, I was left eating a lot of dust

I had a big soft spot for the SL70s - the thought of riding one on the road was the fuel for many of my early dirt bike dreams

Oh yeah the Honda Sl 70. Neighbors had 2 of them. Then we figured we could stuff those engines in the lil Z50 frames and have a clutch. Made those lil things wheelie.
I also had the 80 Yz 125 and that bike really fit me well. I crashed hard one time on it and it pulled the cylinder studs out of the bottom end.

Does this pic look familiar?

That is a good bike you have!

HaHa, I started on a Honda minitrail Z50. Then it was the yamaha 60's & the SL70's I wanted. Then I got the SL....I loved it. Of course that was before the XR75 came out. (by like one year) The Idea of having a clutch & 4 gears made it feel like a big boys bike....lol

Yes Dartyppyt, I love mine. Do you still have that one?

oh man, my bloody vision is so crap, I can't see the pic so well Not sure if they were the same but in Aus the first monoshock YZ was the one I had, and it was red & white, and after my XR, it was THE machine, I felt like a real motocrosser on that bad boy

I'm thinking about getting a Z50 again, they were just so much fun. Can imagine how the front would come up easily with 70cc & a clutch

I finaly got the cr125m I dreamt about as a kid about 15 yrs to late (I've had it about 23 yrs). I remember seeing the FMF & Jeff Ward 100cc versions in the magazines & they might as well of cost over a million dollars in my world.