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« on: September 20, 2011, 07:41:48 PM » |
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This is a pic of me in the Mid 80's on a dirt bike one of my Uncles bought for me to ride.....my parents wouldn't let me have a "motorized" bike....this was back when Evel Knievel was still big...... I laid out of school one day and my Cousin Dennis and I took this bike and his dirt bike and loaded them in his truck and went riding on some old back roads and fire roads....I could pass him on the narrow roads, but he had a bigger bike than this one and would open it up and pass me on the better gravel roads.... We got so muddy, that I elected to throw my pants away that day rather than my Mama finding them....we didn't have a water hose for me to wash them out with.....  We ended up at his house at the end of the day, but not before his Mother called us to tell us that the "Law" was looking for two kids riding dirt bikes on the main roads near his house.....he told her it wasn't us.... .....I was about a mile from his house doing about 50 mph when the chain came off the sprocket of this bike and locked the back wheel down.....I left a pretty long skid mark, but didn't crash it....he went home and brought his truck back and we loaded it on it to get it back to his house to fix it....  My Mama made my Uncle get rid of it before I killed myself on it....  .....that was my first and last bike as a youngster........  |
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Russell Rice
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I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!
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« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2011, 07:53:20 PM » |
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70ish< I am thinking 73 Yamaha dt 250 enduro  |
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Stanley Steamer
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« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2011, 07:55:36 PM » |
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70ish< I am thinking 73 Yamaha dt 250 enduro Not a 250......  |
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Clark
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« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2011, 07:56:28 PM » |
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ITS A YAMAHA DT... SOMETHIN.. EITHER A 125 175 OR 250
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Dogg
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« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2011, 08:00:45 PM » |
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DT 100. I had one but it was red not yellow. nice little bike
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Stanley Steamer
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« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2011, 08:04:24 PM » |
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DT 100. I had one but it was red not yellow. nice little bike
I think you're right......it was a 100cc bike.....just right for a beginning biker.... |
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Stanley Steamer
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« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2011, 08:22:54 PM » |
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« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2011, 08:32:48 PM » |
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Oooh! Ooooh! Me! I can name it!
I'm gonna name it...... Fred!
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« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2011, 09:20:42 PM » |
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Hoser
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« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2011, 05:37:11 AM » |
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I had a mx250 Yammie, it and several beers put me in the hospital!  Hoser |
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I don't want a pickle, just wanna ride my motor sickle  [img width=300 height=233]http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/ |
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hubcapsc
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« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2011, 06:36:54 AM » |
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My first bike was the 1972 version... LT-2 100...  -Mike |
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Clark
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« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2011, 07:46:16 AM » |
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you were kinda GOMER lookin back then............................too  |
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« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2011, 07:52:00 AM » |
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you were kinda GOMER lookin back then............................too And truth to tell-who of us back then weren't??? Ponder that fer a minute or two before we get a lot of pictures posted. RIDE SAFE. |
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Today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. If at first you don't succeed screw it-save it for nite check. 1964 1968 U S Navy. Two cruises off Nam.
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« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2011, 08:06:23 AM » |
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I am gonna have to go along with Serk,,, i think Fred is an appropriate name for the bike!!
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ChromeDome
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60 miles West of Chicago!
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« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2011, 08:11:23 AM » |
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Oooh! Ooooh! Me! I can name it!
I'm gonna name it...... Fred!
I dunno ... looks more like a Stevie to me.  |
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3fan4life
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« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2011, 06:41:21 PM » |
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Steamer remind me to slap you the next time that I see you  It has taken awhile but I've finally ID the bike as a Yamaha DT. The year I'm not sure of. It seems that they kept changing the exhaust back and forth from year to year. This one is a 1981, I can't find PICs of any yellow ones.  Here's a pretty good video of a 1980 model:
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Stanley Steamer
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« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2011, 06:53:17 PM » |
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Steamer remind me to slap you the next time that I see you It has taken awhile but I've finally ID the bike as a Yamaha DT. The year I'm not sure of. It seems that they kept changing the exhaust back and forth from year to year. This one is a 1981, I can't find PICs of any yellow ones. I was about 16 in that pic.....which would have been 1986.....the bike was older than that....late 70"s??...early 80's?.....  |
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3fan4life
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Any day that you ride is a good day!
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« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2011, 07:19:36 PM » |
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This one is a '78:  This one is a '75:  You can see what I mean about the exhaust changing. |
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« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2011, 07:38:05 PM » |
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16 in '86? wow your a youngster! in 86 I got married then things changed because I was in bed with a relative |
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3fan4life
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Any day that you ride is a good day!
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« Reply #20 on: September 23, 2011, 07:40:39 PM » |
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OK I finally figured it out. It is a '77:  And "Ginger" say's that you can't post any more questions like this. It would seem that the exhaust thing isn't a model year issue but rather a different model of the DT:  |
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« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2011, 07:41:21 PM » |
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16 in '86? wow your a youngster! in 86 I got married then things changed because I was in bed with a relative Yep.....I'm a young Fart in a sea of OLD FARTS here!!....... |
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« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2011, 07:43:17 PM » |
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OK I finally figured it out. It is a '77: And "Ginger" say's that you can't post any more questions like this. It would seem that the exhaust thing isn't a model year issue but rather a different model of the DT: I guess the tailight was missing off of the one my Uncle had...... ???.....but I believe you got the right year..... |
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3fan4life
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« Reply #23 on: September 23, 2011, 07:49:04 PM » |
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I guess the tailight was missing off of the one my Uncle had...... Some cocky little 16 yr old kid probably broke it off learning to ride |
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MacDragon
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« Reply #24 on: September 23, 2011, 08:10:18 PM » |
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Wow... back in 86 I was 29... I'm old enough to be your dad... by the way, what's your mom's name? You've got my eyes... |
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 Ride fast and take chances... uh, I mean... ride safe folks. Patriot Guard Riders |
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3fan4life
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Any day that you ride is a good day!
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« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2011, 08:15:48 PM » |
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Wow... back in 86 I was 29... I'm old enough to be your dad... by the way, what's your mom's name? You've got my eyes... So that's what's wrong with Steamer............ |
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