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Hard Luck Vintage Garage
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I have an expensive addiction. I like to acquire forgotten vintage motorcycles that have fallen upon hard times and then restore them to new condition again. I always say it's fun hobby and it keeps me away from crazy women. Over the past two decades, I have restored close to a hundred motorcycles and I have a mountain of photographs to share. I hope to share some of my exploits through picture slideshows and music. In the future, if I can get over my shyness, I would like to video more in depth restoration projects and experiences.
1975 Honda CR125 Elsinore vintage MX time machine. Recently restored and first start up and ride.
This little CR125 Elsinore was a fun project that I spent this winter working on. My intention when I started was to fix whatever was wrong with the bike and then leave the Honda in its original 1975 starting line condition. I left the stock CR125 tank and wheels with their original paint jobs and finish. For safety reasons I stripped and inspected the frame & swingarm for cracks and then repainted it. The engine was rebuilt with new bearings, seals, piston & rings and was also painted. The engine retained a giant Webco cylinder head for excellent cooling of the top end. I rebuilt the vintage Fox Shox and the Honda forks. I also went through the Mikuni carb and installed all new cables an...
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Barn Find Bike Rides. 1976 Kawasaki KX125, 1974 Yamaha YZ250B, 1973 Honda CR250 Elsinore.
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I recently went to visit my good friend Jerry in Tennessee. Jerry has numerous beautifully restored vintage motocross machines that are stored in his home and in garages and barns. Best of all, Jerry has several completely unrestored bikes that we could actually ride and not worry about scratches or dents.. The bikes were all basically stock, complete with 50-year-old tires, tweaked handlebars,...
1974 Honda CR125 Elsinore at the 2023 Indiantown FTR event. Fast, rough and dusty.
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This is my Honda CR125 Elsinore ride along video for 2023 Indiantown race. We haven't had any rain in the area for three months and I wanted to get a really good start before we got into the tight and dusty singletrack woods. Of course, since I was running the video, I messed up my start and had to kick the bike three times to get the motor running. There must have been an epidemic of bad start...
1995 KTM Duke Video. Cold start, ride along, and brake test stoppies.
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These early Duke models were some of the first street legal motorcycles made by KTM. They were also the first of the SuperMoto machines and were tall and light weight with an absolute anchor for a front brake. The Duke begged you to ride like a hooligan and lose your driver's license.
1974 Honda CR125 Elsinore Dade City 2023 FTR Event.
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Racing a vintage Honda CR125 Elsinore on a very fun and fast Florida Trail Riders Dade City Hare Scrambles race. The track featured a lot of long straightaways and slick black dirt with many tree roots. I seized my bike in practice at this event last year and I did some rejetting and tried to be a little gentler on the engine in the really fast sections. The tree roots gave me fits in spots, be...
1974 Honda CR125 Elsinore versus Modern Bikes at the 2023 Wild Boar GNCC race in Palatka, Florida.
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This video is the start of my race and the first 2 miles of the GNCC event. Later in the lap, I ended up in one of those deep mud holes that everybody tells you to avoid, and I watered out the engine. If I had to do it over again, I would have installed sand tires, solid handguards, and probably went on a diet too. At 220lbs that little Honda Elsinore motor had a hard time launching me from the...
1976 Honda Elsinore CR125 FMF Racer Restoration
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This motorcycle restoration video was a fun little project that kept me busy for a couple of months in the Hard Luck Garage. The bike was a 1976 Honda CR125 Elsinore that featured many rare vintage performance parts from the Flying Machine Factory (FMF), Fox Racing shocks, Pro-Fab swingarms, and Mikuni carburetors. As usual for me, the bike started out in pieces and parts and was in pretty roug...
1975 FMF Honda CR125 Elsinore Restoration. Classic Vintage Motocross Bike
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The little Honda Still smokes them!! awesome video!
Too bad Honda won't make a retro version of this bike which is something they could easily do.
Harvey Mushman would be proud 🤟
Sweet Elsinore but was hoping to hear it run
if you can ride the bike almost doesn't matter I smoked many guys with 400s on an xr 200.
That is how I used to ride 2 strokes, throttle wide open. The only thing I could not was a Kawasaki KX 420, IT WAS A MONSTER!!!
ride 0N !
I would have given one of my kidneys for that bike in 1976. I was racing with an MT 125 with a CR top end and chamber. I layed down the shocks as well. But it wasn't as fast as the RM's. I was content with being 4th and 5th place.
50 yo bike, excellent rider. not much has changed. At the time , I made the mistake of buying a TM125. 2 broken kickstart gears and got blown away by a DKW. Both 125 and 250 Elsinores are legendary. Great job man.....
I had a 76 125 Elsinore none of my friends could beat me😂
Fantastic video!
I had the 74 that I traded my 1973 XR 75 to get. Man I thought that was a big boy bike. Manned up when you got on that bike. Had her for about three years and someone stole it. Got it back though and sold it. 50 years was half a century ago but it seems like yesterday.
I went from an XR 75 to a 1975 Cr 125 and I wish I would have kept both bikes and yes it seems like yesterday! a few 3 wheelers, a street and trail suzuki, and now a SxS honda 1000 later I'm still playing in the dirt at 62
I raced this bike in 1974 and 75. But rear shocks would hold it back against newer bikes.
Awesome 👍
I grew up on old 2-strokes. I’ll say this. You have to stay on the throttle and make the bike scream to have any chance. And you get very tired after many laps of that. This guy is going for it. Bravo! I rode RM100s, TM125s, RM125s and a CR250. Good times!
That’s one pissed off bumblebee..Love those old Elsinores .!
Nothing like getting passed by a guy on a 1974 CR125
Wonderful!
Awesome bike ! Grew up on them , still have one
Museum quality build and a wonderful tribute to Marty Smith.
If I was at that race and saw you go by I wouldda been HOLLERIN
Great looking bike, all class.
I felt like I was riding with you and then we fell off, shocked the hell out of me. That little CR is a goer.
Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that engine bone stock? Great run!
BEST DECADE EVER! That INTOXICATING SMELL! SOUND! GOD! LIFE WAS GOOOOD 😊😊😊
Raced a Honda CR125 on the motocross circuits around Sydney Australia back then. When the bike was first released the races were soon full of these Honda's in the 125 class. They simply were the fastest at the time. You would sometimes see a Suzuki, Yamaha or a European machine but the vast majority were Honda's. The engine performance was better than the others and the six speed gearbox allowed rock solid gear shifts, with or without the clutch. The ride was rough compared to modern machines due to the limited travel (front and rear) but somehow the lead riders seemed to put in good lap times. The engine had a tendency to flood for inexperienced riders if the throttle was opened too wide too quickly at low engine rev's. Yes this was a great bike for it's time and very easy to modify in later years to help performance.
Awsome bike .skills. and yes you deffo showed them .😊 👍🏴😁✌️
Something tells me it was more about the rider than the bike and if you two switched bike that Elsinore would end up with the sliver.
For dirt bike racing, it is always more about the rider. And we were faster riders than this generation today. I see the amateur Go-Pro vids today, and I have never seen so many people so slow in the corners. They jump well though, with jumps in the middle of the straight that need no corner speed to clear.
I bought a 76 kx125 new in 1976. I remember my father taking me to get it. I was 13 years old and had been previously riding a 74 mc1 90 m. My father had the Yamaha yz 250 like the one in your video. Both of those bikes were great bikes but that yz 250 was a beast. Thanks for the video. Man this brings back so many memories. A friend of mine had the Elsinore like the one in your video also. He and I would run across the pasture and seeing who could ride a wheelie the furthest. The Elsinore just seemed to always get me. Great video.
God i love 2-strokes
I had the same bike
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The natural progression Trail 50, XR75, Elsinore 125 then a 250.
Thanks! I enjoyed riding your Elsinore!
lol
That front wheel doesn't wanna stay on the ground lol
Great riding! Great sounding Elsinore! You really know how to keep that thing on the pipe, so it gets to move as fast as the newer bikes. I imagine you might be working harder than riders on the newer bikes, and it was really fun to watch.
He was having problems keeping it on the pipe out of a lot of corners. But, I think that bike made between 20-25 hp, it had no low end power to speak of, (and lose power being air cooled quite a bit during the race)m and we don't know how much this guy weighs. Lower gearing would have helped there, but probably hurt him on the longer and smoother straights. It was not an easy bike to keep on the pipe. My bet is this guy is over 150 lbs. But he did a pretty good job,--making modern riders look slow. :) A great vid IMO.
Awesome wish I still had my 1976 Yamaha YZ175!
There were no 175cc MX bikes. There was no 175cc class to race them in. The 1976 YZ125 was one of the first dirt bikes I ever saw when I was a kid, (with the "speedo/tach", as they were called, reservoir canisters on top of the forks.). The 1976 RM125 was the first i ever saw personally. My slightly older neighbors bought them.
Moderns have a slight advantage on the power, but the big advantage is the modern suspension. This guy is riding very well and proving just how capable the Elsinore was fifty years ago.
MX tracks are so smooth today, not many know how to set up suspension. I bet MX racers would go faster with 11" of travel, for a lower bike. I know I am. The modern YZ250 2-stroke is way too tall. But MXA does not complain about tall bikes anymore. lol
Fun
What a great bike, wish I still had mine. Amazing to see how well it performs after 50 years!
Those 70s CRs had something about that the other MX bikes lacked, which was character😮
Had a used 74 one. Changed gearing to top speed 81 mph.
But the slowest to the 1st corner, and out of every corner. That bike had to be a toad if geared that high. It only made about 20 hp, and it would get smoked on anything but a dirt road,--after a mile of slow acceleration. Where did you get that tall gearing? Nobody but you would ever buy it. I think you are fibbing.
I remember those bikes when I was a kid they got vicious power vicious power
73 CR-250 Elsinore, foolishly traded it after about 15 races, for its cousin, the MT-250 Elsinore. Street legal, after I put on a CR jug and head, and Hooker pipe, ran like it's cousin!
the earth is flat
Hell yeah! Ripping it up! That was same bike my uncle had and when I was a kid I would stare at it all day. Would love one in my collection one day.
Nice riding bro! I always had a thing for the elsinores becuz they Did spark the revolution in the dirt bike industry... they were game changers.... I remember sitting on those cr125's in showrooms and it was the stuff of dreams...I was driving a damn minibike back then so those bikes were Godlike by comparison... Back when a 5'7" rider could actuall touch the ground seated, those bikes were ergonomically so cool, they fiy you like an organic extension of ur body...Looks like a Super flickable,flyweight machine...if it were not for the very limited rear suspension travel, it would be even faster on that track with you as the driver...but keeping it stock has its appeal and it would be a shame to mod out a classic like this.
They were game changers, but IMO, the bike that really sparked the dirt bike industry was the Yamaha Mini-Enduro 60. That affordable bike probably got more kids riding off road than any bike before and since. They were all over rural USA. The Elsi 125 would have been their 2nd bike. :)
Wow!
He beat em 🏁, but his body prolly’ took more of a beating than theirs ⚖️