This brings back memories! I owned the 4-stroke version of this bike. They look nearly identical with the exception of the motor. Back in 1986 I purchased a brand new ‘86 Can-Am 560 Sonic from a Ski-doo / Can-Am dealership in Jamestown Wyoming owned by the Jasperson brothers, Cole, Cael, and Craig Jasperson. The 560 Sonic was a big single cylinder 4-stroke thumper ROTAX monster. The thing would climb straight up without breaking a sweat. It was a BEAST with more tractable torque thru it’s entire range than any 2-wheeled machine I’ve ever ridden before or since. It had monster knobs on the rear tire and that bike literally ripped some of them off while I was climbing some of the near vertical hills of “The Palisades” which rise in sheer red cliffs along the north side of I-80 there at Jamestown just west of the town of Green River Wyoming. I never raced my Sonic (I bought it to play on for fun and for bragging rights) and put relatively few hours on the machine before selling it in near pristine condition to a friend in Arkansas about 3 or 4 years after I had purchased it. One of the reasons I didn’t ride it much was because it kicked my a** trying to kick start the beast without a compression release. I would finally get it fired up but it flat-out wore me out before I could get it lit. 1986 was the year of Can-Am’s motorcycle production swan song as they closed up shop that year and quit building bikes. I bought the last of the last of Can-Am bikes and can say I owned and rode one of these monsters for a little while.
I had the 250MX when I was 14 years old! In the mid 90's I scraped it because I couldn't find parts.. Wish we had e-bay and functional internet back then...
I rode the mx 500 it blasted with smoothness if that makes sense. It didn't explode like my CR 500 but always seemed to be right there. I blasted up a huge hill with an explosive control that I smiled about to this day.
I Rode one of them can-am 500 it was bored 40 over and it had a answer Racing exhaust and fmf head pipe and it had the gold wheels on it and red handel bars and I own a 1991 Honda cr500 and by far this can-am was a hand full
I had a used '83? 500 in '2002? It was hard to start, but once goin, ran like Hell!! Pulled really hard thru all the gears. Not pipey, just a great, hard, linear pull. Rode a KX 500 also. It was great also. I think they were about the same. Been so long ago. Would love to have both back right now. Take 'em out for a comparison!!!!!! ❤
Now that is a rare bike....first one I ever seen.... Been in love with can-am since I seen the 77 cover of Cycle world mag...had the 77 mx360 screamin' on a wheelie theough a shallow mountain stream....looked awesome....like Divincci had designed it or something...still live them today..."not so much the new stuff", but I would still so own one of the older ones..
An additional Can Am note: the same time I bought the 500 Can Am, I also bought a used, year,? '83 maybe, Can Am 125 for my son. It was a fun play bike: easy to start and used a rotary valve induction system, like the older Kawasaki's.
If you rode it, I'm sure you would keep it. If I can buy it were ever it ended up i would buy it. I had someone hold onto mine and they sold it on me. I'm devastated.
My Wish List Garage Collection: 1973 Yamaha DT175 (blue) 1973 Yamaha CR250m 1977 Harley-Davidson MX250 (orange) 1977 Harley-Davidson SX250 (brown) 1984 Honda XL350R 1985 Honda XR350R 1988 Honda VFR400R (NC24) 1990 Yamaha FZR400 Genesis There are others, but the top list is my main ideal focus.
Please, cameraperson, don't mainline coffee and Red Bull before you shoot a video. Dang I'm gettin' motion-sick looking at the best looking MX'er of 85. I can't take my eyes off it but I'm getting the sweats and want to vom.
Fill it with gas take some grips click it up into say 3rd gear bum start it whats so hard no reason why it shouldn't fire up if this mint maybe carb cleaned check the plug etc but lets hear it bum start the sucker
You've never driven a 500cc canam. This bike is crazy fast, the engines power band is unbelievable and pulls from idle to past the redline. It never stops pulling, the power never stops, and will yank the wheels in any gear. One of my biggest regrets is selling the one I had. The guy I sold it to didn't respect speed and power. Pulled the wheels at an abandoned airport going 135 from 4th to 5th, hit a rut in the pavement and wiped out. SMH
There is no way unless they even tried to bum start the bike there's no excuse for tryin I would just want to hear it fire up good enough sold as is not running 750 dllrs max that's my offer your tellin me they never tried at all to see if it runs don't belive that
