I would have a spanked you with my KTM 495.

Now get back to work and sell my Playboy!

At one time he had a Hodaka Super Rat and I had a Yamaha RM80

Brad I'm working on it!!!

is that your collection Biggus ?? man you are sick !!!! nice ...very nice...ole Husky. in the last pic ?..cool.....

Thanks Nasty, yeah thats some of my good stuff.

The orange bike is a 1977 Hercules GS350 7 Speed. I totally restored it a few years back. It`s a real handful No reeds or powervalve, just comes on like a giant 125!

I had it registered and rode it around on the street for a few months. Kinda fun but it handles like a refrigerator

Kurt.

Were was teh Hercules made?
Kind of reminds me of an old Penton!

Biggus what is the IT,

I had a 1978 IT175, one of the best bikes I have ever owned.



Jan

The Hercules was made in Germany, by Sachs. pretty funky, the cases split horizontally!

all the bikes against the wall are Pentons. I`ve got Pentons from 1967 to 1977, 125`s- 400`s the '76 400 has 380 orig miles!

Pentons were actually KTM`s and John Penton had a 10 year agreement (67-77) to market the KTM in the US under the Penton name.

Jan, the IT175 is a 78, I agree, they were a fantastic woods bike. I bought mine new with paper route money!

I also have a 79 IT and an '83 that I also bought new, has 500 orig miles.

I love this stuff, back then the sport was cheap. In 1976 I bought a new, left over, 125 Elsinore for 499.00!

Who else is into this crazy hobby?

The Hodaka`s are getting to be really popular with collectors, Last spring I sold a 100 Super rat on ebay for 1800.00! had over 20 bids on it!

Biggus, I regularly check our local paper for early 80's dirt bikes. I want to find a YZ490 in good shape. With a milled head and good pipe that 4spd monster is ultra reliable (and air-cooled), really not in to radiators and antifreeze maintenance on a dirt bike. In my garage I have an 82 XR250R engine with a PowerRoll stroker kit, maybe 10hrs on it. Broke the frame and the prolink on the bike and could never find the Prolink parts cheap.

We have a new place called Vintage Cycles that has been open for a year, the guy is restoring only vintage MX bikes. I am afraid to stop in and look around.

I see you are from Maine, spent a year in Bath in 84 waiting for our ship to be completed (FFG-42 Klakring). Truly loved it up there.


Jan