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Toph
23-10-18, 06:47 AM
Who had a 250 stroker back in the 70's?
Fun times..:cool:
https://www.facebook.com/805781229515839/videos/2083391845323308/UzpfSTE0NTM4NDQ2MjU6MTk0MzU5MDM2MjYwOTY0OA/
Click the pic for a short film ...
Burbler
23-10-18, 07:57 AM
Had one in the 60 s...


http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee479/EuroPapi1/1960%20Zundapp%20250%20Super%20Saber/DSC_0258.jpg
Badger-Roy
23-10-18, 08:32 AM
I had one of these in the 70s :)
http://i66.tinypic.com/2nb4izl.jpg
Trev_P
23-10-18, 09:51 AM
i remember these, me and my mates used to take off the baby bit and strap boards to the undercarriage and use them to hurtle down hill as some sort of tobogan. roads, grassy bits it never mattered as there weren't much traffic about in the 60's n 70's :D


I had one of these in the 70s :)
http://i66.tinypic.com/2nb4izl.jpg
Trev
23-10-18, 10:25 AM
Had a few X7's (got another one now complete with Microns & K&N's), a couple of LC's 250's and a 350, also had an old 'round tank' RD350 air cooled yam which was a nice bike. My Dad had a GT380 which I 'borrowed' a few times and also had a few 2 stroke singles, mainly trail bikes such as DT175, KDX200, PE400 but also an 'interesting' CZ250 single with twin exhaust ports and a gear leverl/kickstart/clutch combo thingy that wasn't much good at either.
Gotta love a two stroke ; )
Badger-Roy
23-10-18, 10:33 AM
i remember these, me and my mates used to take off the baby bit and strap boards to the undercarriage and use them to hurtle down hill as some sort of tobogan. roads, grassy bits it never mattered as there weren't much traffic about in the 60's n 70's :D
I was still being pushed around in one by my mum.
Trev_P
23-10-18, 11:07 AM
:cool::o

I was still being pushed around in one by my mum.
Trev_P
23-10-18, 11:13 AM
never had any 250 strokers, went from a fizzy to a 4 stroke kwacker z250 :)
rd250's were all the rage as well, my mate was forever forgetting to top up the 2 stroke on his rd and seizing the engine, but usually a shot of oil down the barrel and a bump start got it going again, another mate got a mz250 a fact that we remind him of to his annoyance to this day some 40 odd years on lol
i still dont think you can beat the smell of good ol' castrol r in the mornings tho


Had a few X7's (got another one now complete with Microns & K&N's), a couple of LC's 250's and a 350, also had an old 'round tank' RD350 air cooled yam which was a nice bike. My Dad had a GT380 which I 'borrowed' a few times and also had a few 2 stroke singles, mainly trail bikes such as DT175, KDX200, PE400 but also an 'interesting' CZ250 single with twin exhaust ports and a gear leverl/kickstart/clutch combo thingy that wasn't much good at either.
Gotta love a two stroke ; )
Badger-Roy
23-10-18, 12:10 PM
I did have one of these in the early 90s though, a puch maxi luxe. In fact it it was my 1st motorbike and gave me my 1st taste of 2 wheeled fun.
It wasn't actually a bad bike once I took the shopping baskets of :o and it did 35mph (or the speedo said it did anyway).
In a spooky bit of coincidence 25 years later I won an eBay auction for a car and when I went to collect it the old boy selling it was the same bloke I'd bought the puch from 25 years before.
http://i67.tinypic.com/3325xy0.jpg
BugsyB
23-10-18, 12:59 PM
If MZ's count - yes. They should do as they are the cream of bikes. Still have one among the others in the garage.
Dazr
23-10-18, 08:31 PM
I just missed out on the 250 two strokes as the law change just in time for me turning 17....damn. I started off with a Puch just for the fields, not exactly made for off road. Then had a FS1E (fizzy) so wish i had kept that as the price now is crazy. Then moved to a DT125 before moving to cars.........for a long time.
My bikes looked like these

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1417

1418
Burbler
23-10-18, 08:36 PM
This was my 2nd bike, aged 16 after 6 weeks of riding (went down well with the girlies at school)...

1419
Dazr
23-10-18, 09:16 PM
This was my 2nd bike, aged 16 after 6 weeks of riding (went down well with the girlies at school)...

1419

Nice bike - imagine 16 year olds getting that type of bike nowadays
WR6133
24-10-18, 07:00 PM
Far too young for 250 learner legals but from riding Trev's X7 I'm shocked any of you survived the 70's
Toph
25-10-18, 10:18 PM
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I was into trailies when I turned 17 in 1977.. didn't buy a GT, an RD or a KH...I treated myself to a TS250 Suzuki..haven't got a pic of my actual bike..but it was identical to the one in the pic.
Had some good times on that little beastie...:cool:
Trev
26-10-18, 10:55 PM
Far too young for 250 learner legals but from riding Trev's X7 I'm shocked any of you survived the 70's

I'll have you know I was riding my X7 in the 80's, just ; )

It was Gary Glitter we had to worry about in the 70's : (
wheelers
31-10-18, 11:25 AM
just got back from France. the smell of 2 smoke everywhere.
Gilera trial 50, Suzuki X5, mates had GT185 and YDS7 (rd250) I had CB250, they raced ahead and I passed them while they were cooling the bikes down.
apart from crossers YZ250, 465, 500 , CR500, KX250, 500, Husky CR250 many of which turned into super moto all thats left is a RXS100 Yam thats going up for sale soon.
Scotty
31-10-18, 01:58 PM
Yup, after a year on a Fizzy (purple one, natch), I had a GT250M - the one with the Suzuki Ram Air System on it - all that appeared to do was make plug removal more difficult. Following a year on the meaty GT I passed my test and moved onto bigger 4-stroke UJMs for years. Before getting a car licence I did have a later GT250C (last one before the X7) as a winter bike - both GTs holed the right piston due to the points advancing, a task that needed regular attention, something that I obviously failed to do....