Pic of the week game

[marvinsc]

T500 2 by Scott Marvin, on Flickr Had a couple of Yamaha dirt bikes but no pics. First street bike1976 T500 two stroker.

[rphillips]

Marv, I thought those were the ones that came with a "RAM AIR" scoop on them?

[marvinsc]

Marv, I thought those were the ones that came with a "RAM AIR" scoop on them?

Not that I know of but I knew very little back then........... :-)

[650Skull]

First bike was a 73 DT250. No pics


1973 500/4......Pic Taken in 1981.

Had it 11 days when I T boned a car. Both to blame. Bent the frame and the bike was in parts for 12 months and moved house with me. Couldn't afford new mufflers so I made baffles out of tightly rolled up chicken wire to use for baffles. Great when idling around town and would sing a song when opened up. Paint job cost me $130.00 in 1980.

First bike I striped down and put back together. 12 months after the crash I sat up at night drinking rum and smoking dope trying to figure out where what went where. Didn't bag and tag and it had been sitting in boxes for 12 months so just went off the manual pics and tried to apply common sense, ( he says drunk and stoned), not now, then.

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[dorkburger]

Marv, I thought those were the ones that came with a "RAM AIR" scoop on them?

I think the GT 380 and 550 triples were the ram air ones.

[dpep]

T500 2 by Scott Marvin, on Flickr Had a couple of Yamaha dirt bikes but no pics. First street bike1976 T500 two stroker.

I had a Titan back in the 70's and I loved it. Just a great all rounder. Did not work well as a center punch for a Dodge Polara grille however. Otherwise I would probably still have it.

[gustovh]

I bought my 450 Rebel off the showroom floor and rode it out the door in 1987. It is sitting now waiting its turn to be cleaned up and rode again sometime this summer.

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[bccap]

This is me dropping by to visit a friend and show off my brand new motorcycle ..... Still have it .....

[rphillips]

I don't remember for sure Glen, I just remember seeing RAM AIR etched into the top of the eng., thinking 500 or 550, and always thought that had to mean performance (though probably not). My first was a "77" GS750 and know the Ram Air was before them.

[Grimly]

I think the GT 380 and 550 triples were the ram air ones.

Yeah, back in the days when it was a pound per cc on the road, from what I recall peering in the showroom windows.

https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/suzu/suzuki_gt380%2072.htm

[Eli69]

I had a GT380 for a little while. Definitely had a weird shaped top of the motor. shapedto suck in air for cooling. Cool bike. Never ran though. It had set outside just too long to save.

[rphillips]

yep, just a little extra air cooling... But RAM AIR sure made me think performance.

[Burque73]

I was probably 17 here (sitting behind my dad) in 1991. Wasn't much for taking pictures back then so this is the only pic of any of my bikes until decades later. Mom must have snapped this one of Dad and I on my first bike, a Rebel 250. One of the rare occasions that he was home as he was a long haul trucker. He's only 47 in this pic. Seems really weird that I'm now just a bit older than he was here and now I have a grandson that's as old as I was sitting on this Rebel, but I digress.

[trevor]

I was probably 17 here (sitting behind my dad) in 1991. Wasn't much for taking pictures back then so this is the only pic of any of my bikes until decades later. Mom must have snapped this one of Dad and I on my first bike, a Rebel 250. One of the rare occasions that he was home as he was a long haul trucker. He's only 47 in this pic. Seems really weird that I'm now just a bit older than he was here and now I have a grandson that's as old as I was sitting on this Rebel, but I digress.

Wait....you have a 17 year old grandson? and you are not even 50?

[Burque73]

Wait....you have a 17 year old grandson? and you are not even 50?

LOL, yeah. My oldest stepson was born when I was 14, his oldest stepson was born when he was 17.