| Author | Message | ||
     Kenb |
Does anybody remember this bike ? It had to be in the 80's cause I beleive it was an evolution engine. It was in some bike magazine but I just can't seem to find any info on it. Think the Baja was still a 500 mile race then also. | ||
| Glitch |
  Look at the second pic, the bike to the far left. | ||
| Whodom |
I don't think that's an evo, it's an ironhead. Look at side cover with kickstart, no points cover (mag or points mounted vertically directly below air filter), and notches in rocker boxes. I remember reading about a Sportster Baja racer in Hot Rod magazine in the 70's (Hot Rod used to have a motorcycle column). They said it was so fast on pavement that it "threw the knobs off the tires" but unfortunately it was a DNF because it dropped one of its aftermarket fancy-smancy sodium cooled exhaust valves. | ||
| Glitch |
Hell, I was doin' good just to know it was a Harley. I must admit I don't know Harley engines very well. I only started this air cooled, push rod engine stuff two years ago. | ||
| Jarhead |
Looks like they crammed a shovelhead into a 250 MX frame. Never seen that one, but I had an orange 250 much like the cebter bike. Mine was a street legal version and a wheelie machine! | ||
| Okinawaxb12s |
i know where one of those or one very much like it is collecting dust right now.may not be the same bike,but they dang sure look alike.in the south,you find all kind of neat stuff tucked away in old 'bacco barns. | ||
| Whodom |
Glitch- I guess I'm just a gear-nurd from way back. I remember reading when the 'new' Sportster came out year before last that even though they don't need the points cover on the side of the case any more, Willy G. dictated that it had to remain there so as not to freak out people used to the "traditional look" of the Sportster engine. That makes me feel like a REALLY old fart- I remember when Sportster engines looked like the one in the photo above. The points cover on the side cover still seems new to me. | ||
| Kenb |
Hugh that's probably the bike I remember seeing, so it must have been an Ironhead. Don't worry Dave I don't think I would have picked up that the bike pictured is an Ironhead immediately either. I remember the aeramacchi(sp?) HDs when I first started racing mx in 1979 but it's not the bike I remember in the magazine. The bike in the magazine a was a long travel works looking bike with dual headlights with a HD twin in it. | ||
| Court |
The 250MX had a powerband about 75 RPM wide! Coolest part was the leather strap down the center of the tank. There were a couple news ones in Topeka. Court | ||
| Rokoneer |
Remember when the 250MX first came out and they had a "revolutionary new rear suspension" that consisted of having replaced the rear shocks with front fork legs so the bike had forks on both the front and the rear..... They switched to conventional shocks shortly after. | ||
| Djkaplan |
I vaguely remember HD using the odd forks-for-rear-shocks arrangement on their works bikes, but never for production. I also recall a shop in SoCal offerring extra long travel mods for Maicos using this weird set-up in the mid 70's. Back to the Baja HD - I remember a magazine that featured an Evo powerd Harley dualsport in the late 80's. I think it was HOT BIKE or something like that. I'm pretty sure I still have that issue somewhere. It didn't look very fun to ride offroad, btw. |
