Pensacola area riders

[Vico1]

You guys want to see a good sports vid check out the CHIT thread and most recent vid on running hurdles.... well worth your time.

[jmoore774]

Barber Vintage Festival is a can't miss. I competed in the off-road portion of it for years. The Vintage MX is OK, other than the track sucking. The Vintage and Post-Vintage Cross-Country is pretty good if you like the good old typical southeast bark-buster, tight single track trails, and like to ride for 1 hour without stopping. Oh, I almost forgot the best part, vintage bikes brakes don't work too good, and some PV bikes are not much better. The Festival is the Shizzle.
Everybody should go at least once.
J

[newdaze1]

Originally Posted by jmoore774

Barber Vintage Festival is a can't miss. I competed in the off-road portion of it for years. The Vintage MX is OK, other than the track sucking. The Vintage and Post-Vintage Cross-Country is pretty good if you like the good old typical southeast bark-buster, tight single track trails, and like to ride for 1 hour without stopping.

Sounds like some good old fashioned fun - would you happen to know what constitutes a Vintage or Post-Vintage entry in terms of how old the bike has to be ?

[Madhouse]

Originally Posted by jmoore774

Barber Vintage Festival is a can't miss. I competed in the off-road portion of it for years. The Vintage MX is OK, other than the track sucking. The Vintage and Post-Vintage Cross-Country is pretty good if you like the good old typical southeast bark-buster, tight single track trails, and like to ride for 1 hour without stopping. Oh, I almost forgot the best part, vintage bikes brakes don't work too good, and some PV bikes are not much better. The Festival is the Shizzle.
Everybody should go at least once.
J

Tell us more.
I watched the vintage trials and saw some of the cross country trails. Awesome looking terrain for sure.
It immediatly gave me the bug and I found this old bike.
A 1979 XR185



Its all there and in great shape.

Bought it and planned to ride it at Barbers this year, but for some reason I've cooled off about it.
Ya never know though.

Like you said, the brakes ain't like the new bikes.
Hard for me to go fast if I can't slow down fast.

[r_bin]

Oh, you can slow down fast. It hurts though.

Tony welded up the silencer for mine and it looks great!

[r_bin]

Originally Posted by newdaze1

Sounds like some good old fashioned fun - would you happen to know what constitutes a Vintage or Post-Vintage entry in terms of how old the bike has to be ?

Vintage bikes are up to 74, I think. Post vintage is confusing to me. A friend of mine runs a 84 IT200 with drum brakes and monoshock in post vintage. The two 79 XR185's that Madhouse and I have will race against those Yamaha's and KDX's.

All the minutia can be found at http://ahrma.org

[newdaze1]

Originally Posted by r_bin

Vintage bikes are up to 74, I think. Post vintage is confusing to me. A friend of mine runs a 84 IT200 with drum brakes and monoshock in post vintage. The two 79 XR185's that Madhouse and I have will race against those Yamaha's and KDX's.

Thanks for the info and the link...will expect to see the local vintageish "HRC Team" of you and Madhouse out in front of the pack this year !

[waysherr]

Yea vintage is 74 and back. Post Vintage is 75 -84 (most). Disc brakes are not allowed so 82 & up kx's are out.Water cooling, linkage suspension, etc. is all cool. You have further breakdowns in there by year.DLS drum's can be good with good setup...u can do stoppies on my 465

[waysherr]

Originally Posted by r_bin

Vintage bikes are up to 74, I think. Post vintage is confusing to me. A friend of mine runs a 84 IT200 with drum brakes and monoshock in post vintage. The two 79 XR185's that Madhouse and I have will race against those Yamaha's and KDX's.

Linkage bikes are in whats called Ultimate class. Twin shock and non-linkage single shock(my YZ's) are GP(grand prix) class. Of course if you race age class then all PV's race each other which can SUCK, A 78 cr125 would be in with my YZ465 or a full-floater RM! Not dogging the CR but it wouldn't be my choice

[Dirtwoman]

Originally Posted by Hatch

last time I rode at escamos, it had just rained
I spent the better part of 2 hours digging my bike outta a certain infamous hole
take the left line


that being said, it is a fun chunka trails. how much is the FEE again?

10 dollar to make you hollar . My daughter and I can help you dig your bike out if you miss a bridge too

[freebornman]

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[Barney]

I've said my piece on the video issue and I hope we can agree to disagree and disagree without being disagreeable, or something along those lines.

On to better things, lets ride. I'm out Saturday, but in for a ride Sunday.

[newdaze1]

Originally Posted by freebornman

remember?
i told you i had a bad feeling about that post?
it doesn't take much to get this crowd going. does it?
i don't care what anyone else does , unless it effects me . then i start to care.
so shoot your vids , ride fast or slow, stop and take pics of cow paddies, what ever, just don't expect me to judge you or try to change you.
it's just motorcycle riding people, we've always been outside the norm, so don't get so worked up!
too much bullshit for me!
later............................................. .........................

So if I decided to change my last name to "O'Bama" you would not even flinch at this point huh George ?

[reidinitaly]

I've changed the names of my videos to make some people happy, I will continue to record and post, but will do so as not to ruffle too many feathers... My "wheelie" comment on my previous post was not directed at you FBM, not at all. You're one of the last people that I would imagine to have an issue. I'm due to transfer in February and I don't want the things I've done in my stay here to cause problems for those who will remain here after I'm gone. If the tone of my posts before were harsh, my apologies.

[Dirtwoman]

YES IT MAY RAIN TODAY...ARE YOU AFRAID TO GET A LITTLE WET??


ALRIGHT THEN LADIES, LETS RIDE!!