Posts Tagged ‘cr’

At one time or another, you’ve sat around with your friends and jabbered about the mythical “composite” motorcycle. You know the one -it’ got the peak horsepower of a breathed·on Pursang, combined with the low-end grunt of a Stiletto. It`s got the plush forks of a Maico, turns like a CZ and tracks like a cut-frame Husky. It weighs less than a good 250 and has the punch of a 400. And the best part-you don’t have to do anything to the bike. just ride it like it was a 350 Honda pseudo-scrambler.

We’ve all dreamed about that kind of a machine, but up until now, it never existed.

A quick look around at the competition mounts of the Staff of DIRT BIKE shows what has to be done to make a motorcycle “right” for competition. No one but a fool rides a Maico in stock trim. Different filters, rims and assorted bozos are a must for the serious rider. Read the rest of this entry »

See the development of the Honda Open Class from 1974 over the years. Read the rest of this entry »

1975 Honda CR125

I just love these little high revving go fast machines and came across a 1975 Honda CR125 for sale, it was much closer to home than the 74 CR125 I had just bought 2,000 miles away as it was only a little more than 1,000 miles away. I was sill learning my lessons on that bike.

It was described as a first class show bike and it looked great, the close up pics showed a fantastic restoration and the price was more than fair – I bought it, had to.

This beauty got delivered and it was good to look at.

I gave it a check, put fuel in and it fired 1st kick, u ripper, the sound was a great two stroke crackle, the engine was perfect.

Only issue quickly realised was the rear shocks were completely dead, they look beautiful but did not work and the fuel petcock leaked badly.

Well it was a show bike not a racer so not surprised about these in hindsight. Luckily I found on eBay a set of reconditioned shocks for this model and a new NOS petcock. As soon as I got them delivered this bike was 100% complete, it can show and race.

Its so good I am reluctant to race it too hard as I don’t want to scratch it.

LESSON# : there is a difference between a show bike and a race bike, make sure you ask if it can hit the track or not!