New 'Old school' Dirtbike or TT bike

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01-03-2005 | 09:23 AM

caffeineracer

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New 'Old school' Dirtbike or TT bike

http://www.richoliver.net/Bikesales.html

Here's a new bike that's been lowered, resprung, and revalved for sliding around like the old school 'Dirtbikes' I grew up on. A different type of dirtriding that helped make dirtbikes so popular in the 70's.
Last time I trailered the 651 out to the desert I was hoping to relive some memories of sliding a bike around in the dirt. I had some fun out there, and my boys had a blast, but I was disappointed because the rocky surface in the desert wasn't the same dirt I grew up on. Even now, when I ride by Coalinga's oilfield's off of Hwy 198 I think Umm, nice dirt, even smells like the dirtriding I remember.

Now you can pay to ride in Rich Oliver's 'oilfield', and I'm sure it's worth it.

I was truly blessed to grow up in Long Beach in the sixty's surrounded by open oilfields.
Perfect flat track type dirt roads that our 'short suspension travel' dirtbikes worked so wonderfully on.

Can any of you old timers relate to this?

~Jeffers

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Los Angeles, California, USA
http://www.labiker.com/members/?JeffGronert

01-03-2005 | 02:35 PM

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Re: New 'Old school' Dirtbike or TT bike

Jeffers, your just too old for a kid like me to relate to. When I was a that young there were just old british singles, Cushmans and minibikes until Honda came on the scene with their little pressed frame singles. I still was too busy sneaking off with corn, watermellons and pumpkins from the farmer's fields and smoking silkweed until we discovered the local Kankakee headache hash.

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