BIKES OF THE 2019 RED BULL STRAIGHT RHYTHM: 90's 2 stroke bliss

The 2019 Red Bull Straight Rhythm is all two-stroke machines and paying homage to the ’90s. Some of the sports top athletes like Ken Roczen, Cooper Webb, Jason Anderson, Cole Seeley, Travis Pastrana, Tyler Bowers, Ryan Villopoto, Ryan Sipes and Ronnie Mac himself will be doing battle but there won’t be a four-stroke within miles for the course. They will all be riding two-stroke machines. Some new, some old, some factory level machines with unobtainable parts and some being held together by safety wire.

Thanks to the always brilliant Dirt Bike Magazine:
https://dirtbikemagazine.com/bikes-of-the-2019-red-bull-straight-rhythm-2-strokes-only/

Tank Goodness for eBay

Honda SS50 Racer

Even grey cats can be 'boy racers' (man, is this where i'm heading ? guess it could be worse....beats riding Hardleys to the cafe & back).

Big thanks to the wonderful http://chalopy.blogspot.com

check 'em out.

To dream......the impossible dream........

From this...........(another ebay special)............
To this ! (a recoloured image of Jonathan Wood's neat resto, see earlier post).
Sure thing - shouldn't take too many years, or cost too much, heh.

Suzuki TR500 Seeley frame replica

While looking for Kawa tr250's I found this brilliant Suzi replica - the pictures speak for themselves. By David Maskell of the UK, and the link, with loads of tech. is here:
http://www.ozebook.com/compendium/norstedt/tr500-maskell.htm

Bighorn ! Kawasaki hits the trail.

The 175cc F7

The 250cc F4 Sidewinder (1970)- love the smaller tank styling on this road/trail model

superceeded by the 250cc F8 Bison (1972). Man, the blokes at Kawa sure must have watched a lot of BONANZA episodes with those names.....

The mighty 350 Bighorn F5.

And left side.

The kinda guys who ride these iron steeds.........

While we're on CL72 scramblers.....

lovely CCM style tank & setup.

what is this trend for cafe seats on scramblers ?

Esso Gunnarsson & friends !

with thanks to: http://www.pejer.com/

(hundreds of great pics of 'Esso' in both grand prix, I.O.M., Le Mans & rally)