Back in 86 I was Thirteen, weighed about a solid 100 pounds and mounted a yz490 with my buddies holding it up for me and a full 90degree cast on my left arm and I set sail!!! Great memories, we were fearless!!!
Very nice bike, i thought sure you were goin in the dirt to show some dirt showers ! I bought a blown up SWM 250 back in the mid 80’s & rebuilt it, that thing almost felt like a 500, tons of power,when i see a KTM, reminds me of an SWM, or vise versa, well built heavy duty bikes 👍
The KATOOM 495! In the world of motocross, is it one of the most iconic machines ever? I think so! In my far younger years, I had som acquaintances over in Briton Ferry South Wales. Young lad about my age at that time, was heavy in to motocross, as I was in SoCal back then. He had a couple of 495s. My friend had another friend in the area, also a KATOOM 495 owner/MXer They knew a local farmer that allowed them to set up an MX course on one of his pastures to practice/train on. I'll never forget riding the 495!! The most BADASS motocross machine I ever rode! As you rightly said, not only a ROCKET, it has so much torque it could pull a house off its foundation, or pull up tree stumps all day. BEAST of a machine, and could carve up an MX course like a scalpel. The polished muffler and swingarm on yours makes that machine look FANTASTIC!! My outings on the open class KATOOM was 40+ years ago. 🤔 I can only imagine what a HOOT it would be to ride one again today? BADASS MACHINE!! 😎💪💪👍👍
Beautiful bike. I've said it before, you guys do the best restorations. Really nice work. My '83 is getting closer to done. The orange is gone. All black now, including updated Excel/Buchannans. The plastic is still white, blue seat and blue spring on the rear Fox Shock. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
These crisp big bore 2-strokes make the most beautiful noise. (I’m an audio engineer. I want to take spectrogram of the sound with that ping and compare to other big bore greats. If anybody wants to see that, just reply and I’ll make a comparison video. Name the bike from one of this channel’s videos that you’d like to see.)
Yeah, it would be really cool to see what Carson Brown could do with that thing at Washougal. I know that the suspension and brakes are nowhere near modern standards, but I would think that the power would be competitive with a modern 450.
✨🤩👌🏻Once again what a pleasure it is to see an old lady's rebirth with more flare than ever before! Love the way it looks, what an incredible of a flawless restoration there, the only thing is that I would've liked to have seen the original Marzocchi stickers on the suspension but I sure can imagine how hard it is these days to find them after so long without having to spend some time redesigning them with a computer program so that they can get an adhesive coating onto them making them ready to be applied,👍🏻🇵🇹🇳🇱🙋🏻♂️.
Thanks mate I've missed out on riding one I may have mentioned the KDX 500 that was released in Australia only 50 I think they were road registered with lighting
Such a Beauty, wow... and from my Year of Birth on Top. I had a '98 Yamaha TT600R Supermoto Conversion for a few Years(was of course too heavy and just about 40hp, and had its Problems. But a good Bike to just cruise) Later i found my... there is no Words... Lightweight 63whp street legal modified '04 BRP also Supermoto Conversion Honda... XR650R, which i quite did a lot on and spent even more on it, and we had oh Lord such Years..... until.. its a Beast of a Bike. But THESE twostroke Queens you often present Mr Kaplan, these Beautys which you cannot get any street legal License for any more over here in Europe, these would be something i would like to own and Ride, particularly this one i see right here. What would this Time Capsule Rocketship even cost, to ship to EU and so on. I dont even have a Clue yet. You are truly living an amazing Life Guys, and often did i wish i could just travel a few Miles to Rockville. Start working with you Guys which live their Profession and its clear for all to see, but i live in collapsing south EU/Ger. I'd already be a happy Man to just polish all of those Beautys coming through until theres not a single Dust left on em. No Fingerprints, nothing. Hahah... Your Channel and Work, will always stay one of my Favourite, be it Manic Mechanic or Junior or Senior wheelin' up n down the Yard, Truckloads comin in or whomever famous Man from the good ol Days shows up and shares... Blessings, a German
Ktm 495 was fast because it had a 250 powerband. We had a shop support rider for Ktm and he raced one pretty well but we spent the entire season toning down and spreading out the power. He beat all of the factory team at the Mammoth Mountain MX in open pro that year. John Finkleday, Donnie Cantaloupi and Joey Schlag were the factory guys.
@tomhowe1510 Yes it has a pretty big hit in the powerband, fine on a 250 but pretty unmanageable for most people on an open bike. Maicos were a very controlled power that was easy to ride. The KTM 495 was not that way at all for most riders. Our rider was Tracy Oswell and he was an excellent local pro in Southern California, we spent the entire season smoothing the power out making the bike more rideable. To my knowledge he was one of the most successful racers on that bike in the country.
@@tomhowe1510 Did you have one or ride one ever? I did not say it had 250 power, l said it had a 250 type powerband. Which part confuses you? I worked with the bike when it was new and we supported the factory guys when they were in the Los Angeles area. I met all of the team and later became good friends with Donnie Cantaloupi. The bike also had lousy brakes and all of the factory bikes were switched to Yamaha dual leading shoe drum brakes. Even in Europe as we ordered 60 sets of the Yamaha hubs for KTM. Prior to disc brakes the Yamaha brakes were the best available. The 495 was fast but flawed in stock form.
Check out the dern Terraflex on the back of that ol girl! I tried one of those and its actually the deepest lug pattern rear tire available. Deeper than the m5b. Good find fella’s
I can't design it but what if someone made a dirt bike stand that slides under the bike and foot lever that Jack's it up in one or two pumps instead of having to lift the bike?
Wouldn't be too bad. The legs would be shorter and wider and a pump jack in the middle with a big square plate that fits between the legs that the weight sits on? Edit, they probably have them already but Kap doesn't mind lifting 2 strokes.
I had a KTM 250 that looked identical to this. It was stupid fast also. Hardest part was the clutch mechanism was broken so we pushed it down a hill an dropped into 2nd gear an off we went. Lol road it for a month like that an sold it for way more then i paid for it so i couldnt say no.
When I was in the 9th grade I had the 250 version and it was insanely fast. The guy I got it from said he took it to Sears Point raceway and pulled 11's on the quarter. Fastest 250 I ever rode
No way it ran 11's. I've made probably 1000 quarter mile passes on bikes. Even a light bike would need close to 90hp to run in the 11's. Aerodynamics are a big problem as well. Running 11's, even high 11 second quarter would have a trap speed well north of 100mph, too. No 250 is doing that. Edit: not 1000, but definitely in the hundreds
@scootypuffjr. There's at least one yz450 that broke into the 10s. Granted it's a 4 stroke and super gay but it can be done on a dirt bike. It was more than 30 years ago but I do remember he said he ran a slick and way different gearing. He didn't seem like a BSer. He was fanatical about bikes like I've never seen not that it matters but I'm still impressed.
@marksanders4815 there were only a couple street bikes that would run in the 11's when that KTM was new. A lowered GSXR 1100 from the early 90's would only run a mid 10 on a good day at sea level with a light rider. No 250 MX bike from the 80's was running 11's. There was no magic in that one particular 250
"STOUT" I think is the word that comes to mind for this Beast.... yeah.... STOUT, definition number 2 though!!! 🤣🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅 stout | adjective 1 (of a person) somewhat fat or of heavy build: stout middle-aged men. 2 (of an object) strong and thick: Billy had armed himself with a stout stick | stout walking boots.
Do your research dirt bike magazine actually tested it and set the world record in the words of the legend himself super hunky you really should have known
@@paulscountry456 its been proven; The 1981 KTM 495 is considered the world's fastest dirt bike of its time, reaching speeds of up to 123.75 miles per hour (200 kilometers per hour): Speed: In 1981, Dirtbike magazine recorded the 1981 KTM 495 reaching 123.75 miles per hour at the El Mirage dry lake. case closed.
Then all you need to do is find an early 1982 issue of DirtBike mag and read the story....they tried beating the record several times with different bikes and never could ,.I remember when they did it...
You obviously have never ridden one. The brakes was actually very good for its time just not up to par for all the HP this bike makes. In a drag race it will throw rocks all over the Maico and leave it eating dust. Only the mighty Kawasaki KX 500 was even close but on a motocross track both the Maico and Honda was way superior. I owned 2 of these bikes. Very difficult bike to race on motocross can only roll the throttle or front end will stand straight up even at 100 mph. Marazochi forks very good if you stiffened up the springs but the rear mono shock was poor and it took KTM several years to get that decent. Earlier twin shockers was better.
Beast! Another great resurrection. 👍👍 80s big bore 2 strokes were crazy from all the manufactures.
I love my rm400.
@kengribaudo409 👍 My buddy had a rare RM500.
Back in 86 I was Thirteen, weighed about a solid 100 pounds and mounted a yz490 with my buddies holding it up for me and a full 90degree cast on my left arm and I set sail!!! Great memories, we were fearless!!!
What a beast, sounds absolutely spot on, just gorgeous ktoooom.
That back tire says .... Hang on for dear life .... 😂😂😂😂😂
I’m sure you know witch restroom to use after Holdin that wide open 💪🇺🇸
Very nice bike, i thought sure you were goin in the dirt to show some dirt showers ! I bought a blown up SWM 250 back in the mid 80’s & rebuilt it, that thing almost felt like a 500, tons of power,when i see a KTM, reminds me of an SWM, or vise versa, well built heavy duty bikes 👍
When I was young my best friend dad had one it was bad ass awesome old school bike love ur video 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻💯💯💯
austria!!!!!!!!!!
The KATOOM 495!
In the world of motocross, is it one of the most iconic machines ever? I think so!
In my far younger years, I had som acquaintances over in Briton Ferry South Wales. Young lad about my age at that time, was heavy in to motocross, as I was in SoCal back then. He had a couple of 495s. My friend had another friend in the area, also a KATOOM 495 owner/MXer They knew a local farmer that allowed them to set up an MX course on one of his pastures to practice/train on.
I'll never forget riding the 495!! The most BADASS motocross machine I ever rode!
As you rightly said, not only a ROCKET, it has so much torque it could pull a house off its foundation, or pull up tree stumps all day. BEAST of a machine, and could carve up an MX course like a scalpel.
The polished muffler and swingarm on yours makes that machine look FANTASTIC!!
My outings on the open class KATOOM was 40+ years ago. 🤔 I can only imagine what a HOOT it would be to ride one again today?
BADASS MACHINE!! 😎💪💪👍👍
I live near Briton ferry
aircooled monster love it !
Resurrected a real monster.
THAT is a leg breaker! hahaha
💯💯💯🤣🤣 i bet its something to kick over 😂
What a beauty, sounds great too
Beautiful bike. I've said it before, you guys do the best restorations. Really nice work. My '83 is getting closer to done. The orange is gone. All black now, including updated Excel/Buchannans. The plastic is still white, blue seat and blue spring on the rear Fox Shock. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
I ran that teraflex on my 96CR500 loved it
These crisp big bore 2-strokes make the most beautiful noise. (I’m an audio engineer. I want to take spectrogram of the sound with that ping and compare to other big bore greats. If anybody wants to see that, just reply and I’ll make a comparison video. Name the bike from one of this channel’s videos that you’d like to see.)
Yeah, it would be really cool to see what Carson Brown could do with that thing at Washougal. I know that the suspension and brakes are nowhere near modern standards, but I would think that the power would be competitive with a modern 450.
Had one in 99 what a f in beast
Have you ever put it on the dyno
Makes me remember the IMS wide ratio trans I had in my 86 cr 500 . Do you ever come across those wide raito transmission s?
Ready to race best in the East Coast RIP LEGENDARY
Museum quality piece for sure🎉
✨🤩👌🏻Once again what a pleasure it is to see an old lady's rebirth with more flare than ever before! Love the way it looks, what an incredible of a flawless restoration there, the only thing is that I would've liked to have seen the original Marzocchi stickers on the suspension but I sure can imagine how hard it is these days to find them after so long without having to spend some time redesigning them with a computer program so that they can get an adhesive coating onto them making them ready to be applied,👍🏻🇵🇹🇳🇱🙋🏻♂️.
his Mrs makes the graphics
We'll never forget finkelday ripping that bike around pepperll
Certified oldschool ripper my eyes were reading like a Speedo when you ripped up the drive U could see the speed and torque
like the business every boss could have moment but cool sounds great cheers from here husqvarna be my choice
Love this big bore. Probably the best looking rear fender ever on any motocross! ❤
Agree. 👍 I always digged the rear fender / # plate combos on Katooms and KXs of the era. Thought they cleaned up the middle nicely.
Thanks mate I've missed out on riding one I may have mentioned the KDX 500 that was released in Australia only 50 I think they were road registered with lighting
That KTM just looks right.
Such a Beauty, wow... and from my Year of Birth on Top.
I had a '98 Yamaha TT600R Supermoto Conversion for a few Years(was of course too heavy and just about 40hp, and had its Problems. But a good Bike to just cruise)
Later i found my... there is no Words... Lightweight 63whp street legal modified '04 BRP also Supermoto Conversion Honda... XR650R, which i quite did a lot on and spent even more on it, and we had oh Lord such Years..... until.. its a Beast of a Bike.
But THESE twostroke Queens you often present Mr Kaplan, these Beautys which you cannot get any street legal License for any more over here in Europe, these would be something i would like to own and Ride, particularly this one i see right here. What would this Time Capsule Rocketship even cost, to ship to EU and so on. I dont even have a Clue yet.
You are truly living an amazing Life Guys, and often did i wish i could just travel a few Miles to Rockville. Start working with you Guys which live their Profession and its clear for all to see, but i live in collapsing south EU/Ger. I'd already be a happy Man to just polish all of those Beautys coming through until theres not a single Dust left on em. No Fingerprints, nothing. Hahah...
Your Channel and Work, will always stay one of my Favourite, be it Manic Mechanic or Junior or Senior wheelin' up n down the Yard, Truckloads comin in or whomever famous Man from the good ol Days shows up and shares...
Blessings, a German
God bless TeraFlex!
VeRy nice bike 👌🏻
I've done 120 on my Harley., I could only imagine doing it on an 80s dirt bike!
Merry Christmas those tires look like sand and mud tires. For real lots of meat on the back tire...
SO classic and desirable.
The that bike sounds, you've gotta have strong ball and socket in you elbows and shoulders.
Oh no! Scott passed terrible hope he was right with the lord . Scott was cool
One of the best from Kronreif Trunkenpolz Matighoevan.
How fun would it be for someone to swap out sprockets and see what kind of top end ciuld be achieved with this freakin rocket.
Not many bikes that dwarf you buddy but this is one😮
Ktm 495 was fast because it had a 250 powerband. We had a shop support rider for Ktm and he raced one pretty well but we spent the entire season toning down and spreading out the power. He beat all of the factory team at the Mammoth Mountain MX in open pro that year. John Finkleday, Donnie Cantaloupi and Joey Schlag were the factory guys.
What??? A 250 powerband?
@tomhowe1510 Yes it has a pretty big hit in the powerband, fine on a 250 but pretty unmanageable for most people on an open bike. Maicos were a very controlled power that was easy to ride. The KTM 495 was not that way at all for most riders. Our rider was Tracy Oswell and he was an excellent local pro in Southern California, we spent the entire season smoothing the power out making the bike more rideable. To my knowledge he was one of the most successful racers on that bike in the country.
@othgmark1 you can be a name dropper but this things and animal. 250 powerband lol. Ok dude your story
@@tomhowe1510 Did you have one or ride one ever? I did not say it had 250 power, l said it had a 250 type powerband. Which part confuses you? I worked with the bike when it was new and we supported the factory guys when they were in the Los Angeles area. I met all of the team and later became good friends with Donnie Cantaloupi. The bike also had lousy brakes and all of the factory bikes were switched to Yamaha dual leading shoe drum brakes. Even in Europe as we ordered 60 sets of the Yamaha hubs for KTM. Prior to disc brakes the Yamaha brakes were the best available. The 495 was fast but flawed in stock form.
@@othgmark1 were thru here.
🐝🏁 Video 👍 🚀💪clean KTM
Radiators? We dom't need no stinking radiators!!
Check out the dern Terraflex on the back of that ol girl!
I tried one of those and its actually the deepest lug pattern rear tire available. Deeper than the m5b. Good find fella’s
Beast for sure...
What a large bike made for buckin!
Very nice 👍
i had a cz 250 in 70 was a lot like that. could pull the wheels in all the gears
Four nine five! All said!
"Ride or Die" ? If your on that thing it's more like "Ride and Die". Lol
I can't design it but what if someone made a dirt bike stand that slides under the bike and foot lever that Jack's it up in one or two pumps instead of having to lift the bike?
Wouldn't be too bad. The legs would be shorter and wider and a pump jack in the middle with a big square plate that fits between the legs that the weight sits on? Edit, they probably have them already but Kap doesn't mind lifting 2 strokes.
🤙🤙
I had a KTM 250 that looked identical to this. It was stupid fast also. Hardest part was the clutch mechanism was broken so we pushed it down a hill an dropped into 2nd gear an off we went. Lol road it for a month like that an sold it for way more then i paid for it so i couldnt say no.
No Chinese Parts here 😂
When I was in the 9th grade I had the 250 version and it was insanely fast. The guy I got it from said he took it to Sears Point raceway and pulled 11's on the quarter. Fastest 250 I ever rode
No way it ran 11's. I've made probably 1000 quarter mile passes on bikes. Even a light bike would need close to 90hp to run in the 11's. Aerodynamics are a big problem as well. Running 11's, even high 11 second quarter would have a trap speed well north of 100mph, too. No 250 is doing that.
Edit: not 1000, but definitely in the hundreds
@scootypuffjr. There's at least one yz450 that broke into the 10s. Granted it's a 4 stroke and super gay but it can be done on a dirt bike. It was more than 30 years ago but I do remember he said he ran a slick and way different gearing. He didn't seem like a BSer. He was fanatical about bikes like I've never seen not that it matters but I'm still impressed.
@@marksanders4815 there was no yz450 30 years ago
@scootypuffjr. It was 30 years ago when I bought the KTM not that a yz450 broke into the 10s
@marksanders4815 there were only a couple street bikes that would run in the 11's when that KTM was new. A lowered GSXR 1100 from the early 90's would only run a mid 10 on a good day at sea level with a light rider. No 250 MX bike from the 80's was running 11's. There was no magic in that one particular 250
Hold on…
I’m coming?!?!!!
"STOUT" I think is the word that comes to mind for this Beast.... yeah.... STOUT, definition number 2 though!!! 🤣🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
stout |
adjective
1 (of a person) somewhat fat or of heavy build: stout middle-aged men.
2 (of an object) strong and thick:
Billy had armed himself with a stout stick | stout walking boots.
Mine had a compression release lever. If you didn’t use it, it was near impossible to kick it over. I sold it cause it scared me.
That's an angry mofo right there.
Rip Scott
Hmmm...nice bike that 495 is so fast yet so fragile
ECCEZIONAL
also known as the white tornado!
Whoah!!!😬💣🏁🚀💩
Just a Europa bike…🫡😉
Top👍
How much is this $ 3K dollar dirt bike 😂😂😂😂 ?
Monster
Mam LC4 ER 600 '90 taki sam miałem uśmiech jak pierwszy raz go dosiadłem
Kees van der Veen/NL, won five time Enduro le Touquet, Enduropale, 1982-1986 en France.
He's freezing
-4 ° with the wind chill
126 ... not on what your on there...lol
Those were heavy tanks and with maybe 35 hp and knobbies you could hit 80 maybe....
Do your research dirt bike magazine actually tested it and set the world record in the words of the legend himself super hunky you really should have known
Fair enough, you stap a GPS to that bike and go and prove it...crickets......
@@paulscountry456more like 55-60 horsepower. Smoke any 450 4 stroke!
@@paulscountry456 its been proven; The 1981 KTM 495 is considered the world's fastest dirt bike of its time, reaching speeds of up to 123.75 miles per hour (200 kilometers per hour):
Speed: In 1981, Dirtbike magazine recorded the 1981 KTM 495 reaching 123.75 miles per hour at the El Mirage dry lake. case closed.
I would love the "proof" of that 126 mph run! other than seeing it, BS
Then all you need to do is find an early 1982 issue of DirtBike mag and read the story....they tried beating the record several times with different bikes and never could ,.I remember when they did it...
@@randominc.2251 good luck finding that
Shitty suspension and brakes !!?? Everybody helps praise on these old clunkers but nobody rides them LOL
I'll bet you don't have the balls to ride one.
You obviously have never ridden one. The brakes was actually very good for its time just not up to par for all the HP this bike makes. In a drag race it will throw rocks all over the Maico and leave it eating dust. Only the mighty Kawasaki KX 500 was even close but on a motocross track both the Maico and Honda was way superior. I owned 2 of these bikes. Very difficult bike to race on motocross can only roll the throttle or front end will stand straight up even at 100 mph. Marazochi forks very good if you stiffened up the springs but the rear mono shock was poor and it took KTM several years to get that decent. Earlier twin shockers was better.
M a i c o 81490 will kick its ass Long live European motorcycles love the Husqvarna CR 500 achieva 500
Sweet