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Motorcycle trials any fans

Posted By: blanked

Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 12:44 AM

These were super popular in my neighborhood growing up in the 7Os


https://youtu.be/fxsQVoEjwN4
Posted By: 6InARowMakeItGo

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 01:16 AM

What’d they do to be on trial?
Posted By: TEXASLEFTY

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 01:28 AM

That guy is good!
Posted By: Poppa

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 01:31 AM

they have trials comps. at red river trails, or they used to.
Posted By: RattlesnakeDan

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 01:36 AM

Used to ride trials in Colorado, not like these guys though. Had a Yamaha TY350
Posted By: DannyB

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 02:17 AM

I remember that sport quite well from my motorcycle days of the 70's. I never did it, just dirt track and one motocross race. I came next to last. I beat the only girl in the competition. In the 70's it really was a girl. grin

I thought about that Trials sport in the past few years of Colorado ATV/Jeep trails we've been on.
Posted By: Guy

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 02:28 AM

My neighborhood in the 70’s, we had a dad had a pickup and trailer and would take the whole neighborhood, we would go behind the dam at lake Lewsville. Did that for years, eventually they closed it all down. I used take my 4x4 back there in the early 80’s, I would tie a rope on the back of my truck, a tube, and pull friends up the river it was a blast. Nothing like the good ol days.
Posted By: BOBO the Clown

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 02:31 AM

Two past times in Idaho. Motorcycle trails and shooting rocks

Unique experience to be 8 miles and a big yamaga 450 go screaming past you
Posted By: HWY_MAN

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 04:19 AM

Originally Posted by blanked
These were super popular in my neighborhood growing up in the 7Os


https://youtu.be/fxsQVoEjwN4


Started out with a Honda TL 125 went to a Yamaha TY 175 and my last bike was a Bultaco Sherpa T 350.

It's been a long time.
Posted By: 68rustbucket

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 05:03 AM

Friend of mine in the 70’s had a Honda TL 125. It was a wheelie machine.
Posted By: Dustnsand

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 05:30 AM

Originally Posted by TEXASLEFTY
That guy is good!


He's the greatest of all time and it's not even close. He's won both the indoor and outdoor world titles every year since 07.
Posted By: HWY_MAN

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 06:04 AM

Originally Posted by 68rustbucket
Friend of mine in the 70’s had a Honda TL 125. It was a wheelie machine.


The TY 175 Was the wheelie machine, it was lighter and had more HP. You had to really stay over the handle bars to keep the front end from coming to see ya. The TY was by far my favorite.

The new riders have taken it to level we could have never imagined back then.
Posted By: missingAK

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 07:13 AM

I had a Yamaha TY250 when I was a teenager. Torquey son of a gun. Had a lot of fun on that bike, but nothing like in the video.
Posted By: Stub

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 11:39 AM

Back in 1972 I had a Honda Trail 90 had fun on it but never ever tried anything crazy like that!
Posted By: Old Rabbit

Re: Motorcycle trials any fans - 03/09/22 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by HWY_MAN
Originally Posted by blanked
These were super popular in my neighborhood growing up in the 7Os


https://youtu.be/fxsQVoEjwN4


Started out with a Honda TL 125 went to a Yamaha TY 175 and my last bike was a Bultaco Sherpa T 350.

It's been a long time.

Mine was a Suzuki TS185 with a Bassani Expansion Chamber on it. It could go places I didn't have the skill to follow.
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