Deffo good looking rims swingarm and linkage and when I see that linkage I think of 1800 beam engine steam pump , I thought first front disc and rear drum was 86
Bella fantastica,io avevo il 125rv con sospensioni marzocchi gran moto guida abilissima ,poi il 125 1983 e in concomitanza il 495con il freno a disco anteriore,arrivando fino hai giorni nostri ecc 250 rigorosamente due tempi e superduke 1290gt all attivo 49 KTM,austriache le migliori.🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡
had one growing up. that thing will put a lot of hurt on you if you get on it and don’t know what your doing. some would ask to drive it but answer was always no😂😂
That was the first MX bike I had seen, back when I was 12 years old in 1976 in rural Michigan. A neighbor of mine had one. I have been hooked on the sport ever since,---and even after engineering degrees and a lot of dead end jobs, I port little 2-stroke engines for a living today.
I started on the TM 75. Slow,,,,Poor handling, extremely sluggish,, But so cool... I loved it. The dumbest design flaw was the front finder. What front fender? Also the oil injection was useless. I just mixed the gas.to get the right mixture. I also got rid of the spark arrestor. That silly thing took and already slow bike and made it slower. But,,, AS far a fun,,, and youth,, I had more fun on a TM 75, than any of my 20 bikes since. I will never forget the smell of mixing the Castrol race oil in that slow little engine... Brings back great memories...
Nice bike,i bought one brand new in 1980 for about 1500 dollars in Australia and just got my hands on one again recently in great condition for 7000 dollars
Use to race vintage. Then got into woods riding on modern bikes but hung up the boots after breaking my femur on my kx500. I still have about 45 bikes in the collection
Rode one of these back in the day and then the Yamaha IT 200 stormed onto the scene, spelled the end of the MR sadly. Fun back to go bark bashing with however.
I was 14 in 1989. My mom liked to garage sale Alot. She called it 'Sailing'. One of those times I wasn't sweating in the back of a station wagon in the middle of the summer w/ her she brought this home. As the story goes some elderly woman had a small shed in the back of her property that butted up against a large creek. It rained alot the summer and flash flooding caused the shed and its contents to be dislodged and swept away. Her things were recovered and the original owner grown and gone she decided to put it in her garage sale. Im sure she was asking more but my mom was a shark. She got my surprise bike 1980 cr80r for $80 and brought it home. Now I know she was gambling on this cause $80 was alot of cheap garage sale nick-nacks for her but she knew I had a knack for fixing stuff. She brought it home and I filled it with gas and it fired right up but I shut it down right away as the river slammed it into rocks apparently and cracked open the side case. I was motivated at this point and thanked my mom with joy! Long story short I rebuilt the bike from the frame up with all new seals and parts and paint. Thanks Dad for the many visits to the Honda parts shop..after $550+ in parts he was asking me "son are we almost done yet"? ;) Took me a year but at 15 I was rippin' shit up on the trails and I was hooked. I'll never forget that bike so thanks for the restored memory in visuals and sound from my past. 1980 cr80r for $80. Thank-you. 48 and still twisting the throttle <3
79? Put on your Regatta De Blank and pleasure Principal records, finish off your home work in jr high, grab your Cycle World magazine and dream about these plastic motor cycles. 😎👍
Had one of these when I was 13 y/o. I remember the big 40mm carb, and how I had to "keep it on the pipe" if I wanted to climb a hill. Since I was in a residential area, I used existing and abandoned rail rights-of-way to get to different areas. I can recall riding in top gear on the stone track beds, doing maybe 45-50 mph, and having to watch for the occassional hills that would allow vehicles to cross the tracks. Hit one of those and you'd be jumping at that speed. It was bullet-proof engine. Just had to keep up on the maintenance - chains, sprockets, tires, etc.
