Thanks guys.....it's like the shape is purposfull. Trim & lite....& look how wide the bars were back then.
My neighbor 1st got the silver and orange one. Had to be the loudest bike of them all. You could hear that bike for miles. When those hit and then Suzuki came out with the first RM's then later Yamaha with the YZ's you knew that the 3 Japanese companies meant business. But that was the era when things started stepping up.
Thats for sure! I always liked the way the RMs side number plates bumped out to make room for the "cantilever shocks"
ahhh yamaha jt60 any body remember what year the gold and black ones were the next one was red and white but i was 6 didnt care what year it was it had wheels and a motor
now there's a challenge, guessing Troys age , the formula will be something like this - 2014 - gold & black JT60 year + 6 I loved my XR75 but still thought the small Yamaha range were nice bikes Troy, do you have any pics from the good old days to share, we'd love to see them
Yeah, we gotta see pics. Ok here is a trivia question ? What did the different number plate colors mean? The green, yellow, white, and black? Now this means in the older days?
sorry guys no pixs nobody regrets it more than me now im old and and have nuttin but dimming memories it was for class designation by displacement
well the yellow backgrounds must have been like an Open class or something similar, that's what my 500 has, were the black backgrounds maybe 125s and 250s white? don't know what the green was for though.........
Ok don't quote me to a T on this but you are close: 125 = Black 250= Green Open = Yellow I thought Amateur = White Not sure what pro was ? But think about what came on Vintage bikes back then.
Memory not what it used to be. Remember, we are talking about the 70's. eeeww that smell, can't ya smell that smell.
look at Honda CRs from the early 80s they were right green and yellow were an engine size damn cant remember the rest
Rossik, You guys are lucky that you can still get this: http://www.rgracing-oils.co.uk/Castrol_Oils_2_stroke_racing_oils.htm Might have to have them ship me a case of it some day.
Hey good call - I was meaning to ask about 2 stroke oil......back in the day I used to use BelRay but these days, in the UK at least, it seems BelRay 2 Stroke isn't available. There seems to be loads of new brand names around, some which seem to be popular with good reputation but would this Castrol stuff be good in my '84 AE500 ? And I know it's completely unimportant, but does this oil have a unique smell when it comes out the exhaust? I seem to remember being at races populated mostly by 2 strokes and some of the fumes were very different to others.......... And let's face it, if I'm gonna be out on the track I want to smell at my best )
