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Digging through old stuff came across this, 1983 YZ490 bought for 50 quid ($70) no spark had me stumped for awhile until I swapped the magneto




1995, I was 15......

britincali wrote: I was 15......

How many beers ago was that?

The first bike I ever rode: Indian 50. It was my friend Charlies...



First bike I ever owned: Taco Minibike



If I could find it, I'd prolly' trade my A/F strait across....

I had that same Taco boB

First bike I ever rode was a 70's suzuki A100, we thought it was the shit in a field with bald cracked street tires

Ahhhh, the ole YZ brings back memories, especially that twin leading shoe front drum brake. In the dry, worked as well as most disc brakes, in the wet (and I lived in England, so it was ALWAYS wet) . . . . well I reckon the "ohfuckohfuckohfuckingshit" inside the helmet had as much slowing effect as the brake did ! Mine was only a 125 chassis, with a DT200 engine, so I can only imagine how much scarier the 490 was with the same brake setup ! I bought a disc braked 490 years later, and my lasting memoty of that was the Godawful noise the bugger made, as those great big cooling fins resonated. On a freshly rebuilt engine, you'd swear there was a bag of nails rattling around on the top of the piston !

This is on the swapmeet today and it's in your part of the country.
Get it and do some vintage racing.

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