Who can name this bike??.....

[Stanley Steamer]

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........

[Russell Rice]

70ish< I am thinking 73 Yamaha dt 250 enduro

[Stanley Steamer]

70ish< I am thinking 73 Yamaha dt 250 enduro

Not a 250......

[Clark]

ITS A YAMAHA DT... SOMETHIN.. EITHER A 125  175  OR 250

[Dogg]

DT 100. I had one but it was red not yellow. nice little bike

[Stanley Steamer]

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....

[John Schmidt]

Steamer, bet you can't wear that belt any more either. 

[Stanley Steamer]

Steamer, bet you can't wear that belt any more either. 

[Serk]

Oooh! Ooooh! Me! I can name it!

I'm gonna name it...... Fred!

[RoadKill]

I had a girlfriend that rode one of those...She got a bigger 'girlz bike' soon after !       

Just funnin' Stan. I had a 175 Kawa for 1st dirt bike. 

[Hoser]

I had a mx250 Yammie, it and several beers put me in the hospital!    Hoser

[hubcapsc]

My first bike was the 1972 version... LT-2 100...



-Mike

[Clark]

you were kinda GOMER lookin back then............................too

[old2soon]

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.

[Jess Tolbirt]

I am gonna have to go along with Serk,,, i think Fred is an appropriate name for the bike!!

[ChromeDome]

Oooh! Ooooh! Me! I can name it!

I'm gonna name it...... Fred!

I dunno ... looks more like a Stevie to me. 

[3fan4life]

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:

1980 Yamaha DT100 Enduro

[Stanley Steamer]

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?.....

[3fan4life]

This one is a '78:




This one is a '75:



You can see what I mean about the exhaust changing.

[musclehead]

16 in '86? wow your a youngster!     in 86 I got married  then things changed    because I was in bed with a relative 

[3fan4life]

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:

[Stanley Steamer]

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!!.......

[Stanley Steamer]

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.....

[3fan4life]

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   

[MacDragon]

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...

[3fan4life]

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............