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Rombloke:
mmmmm...landar backwards.

Dave

stidds:

--- Quote from: magna13 on January 11, 2010, 10:41 PM ---
--- Quote from: Stidds on January 11, 2010, 10:26 PM ---Deffo motocross bar manufaturer, I had a set of Radnall's on my old Maico 490.  Not sure about those bars though as they are a bit high for MX bars.

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Sean! you never told me you rode motocross! did you have a '81 490 Mega 2? :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:

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Rode MX for years Zak, started off on a Maico MC250, had a Mega 2 (fooking beast of a bike), then had a KTM 495 water cooled.  Then went back to a 1986 RM250.

steve69:
Thanks for the input guys ;)

Is there much of a vintage MX scene? Worth anything or bin fodder?

oldsnow:

--- Quote from: Stidds on January 11, 2010, 10:41 PM ---
--- Quote from: OLDSNOW on January 11, 2010, 10:22 PM ---looks just like the set i had on my Beamish Suzuki !

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Oldsnow, what model was your Beamish mate, they are superb machines.

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now youre asking Sean ! it was a hand me down from my older cousin in the 80's. chrome side springs, yellow tank thats about as much as i remember apart from the bastad landin on me after i flipped it goin up an incline !

magna13:

--- Quote from: Stidds on January 11, 2010, 10:50 PM ---
--- Quote from: magna13 on January 11, 2010, 10:41 PM ---
--- Quote from: Stidds on January 11, 2010, 10:26 PM ---Deffo motocross bar manufaturer, I had a set of Radnall's on my old Maico 490.  Not sure about those bars though as they are a bit high for MX bars.

--- End quote ---
Sean! you never told me you rode motocross! did you have a '81 490 Mega 2? :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:

--- End quote ---

Rode MX for years Zak, started off on a Maico MC250, had a Mega 2 (fooking beast of a bike), then had a KTM 495 water cooled.  Then went back to a 1986 RM250.

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Some nice bikes there Sean :smitten: :smitten: Old man was a major Maico rider untill about 86 when they started producing s*it!, he went on to a 86 Honda CR500 with White Power forks and rear shock, DG Pipe and Works Tecnosel replica seat cover :smitten:

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