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Old 80's Scramblers

  • 21-05-2008 2:56pm
    #1
    travis1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭


    Hey Guys, does anybody know where one might lay ones hands on an old scrambler? DT100-175 that kind of thing. I know there has to be loads of them just lying around in sheds. I mean there was loads of them on the road and they wern't all crashed.
    Any Help?


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  • #2
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    fwiw, my wife sold her DT last year. 1980, monoshock, black, perfect.

    And no, they're not cheap anymore - € 1600.

    She still has her 1G1 DT - twin shock, though, and that's NOT for sale - needs tlc. oh, and an exhaust.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #3
    travis1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭travis1976


    I know that bargain classic is out there somewhere. Baited breath and all that


  • #4
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,533 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Most 80s two-strokes would have died a death years ago...

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • #5
    Hornswoggle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭Hornswoggle


    Give Tims Off Road a bell. While he specialises in scramblers for competition purposes more so, he might be able to point you the right way.

    Would have to agree with Ninja though...

    http://www.timsoffroad.ie/


  • #6
    travis1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭travis1976


    Cheers Hornswoggle, I'll try that. Ninja, I'll try not to be put off by Your negativity...haha


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  • #7
    dubtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    I'm nearly 100% that city spares in cherryorchord has a dt175,they also have an rd200 and a ypvs for anyone classic lovers looking.
    http://www.cityspares.ie/phpfoto/foto_list.php?page=12&cmd=


  • #8
    Interceptor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    They pop up in the Buy and Sell from time to time but like galwaytt says, they are making silly money and parts are getting hard to find. I owned several DT/RD/AR's in the 80's and I have to ask why in the name of Ogg would you want anything to do with them? Get a nice DRZ250 and don't be waiting for the piston to come out through the crankcase...

    'cptr


  • #9
    travis1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭travis1976


    Thanks Guys. Looks like I'm gonna have to look for some other way to ease that 2 stroke monkey on my back.. There might be a song in there actually.. Maybe one of those Chinese/Korean motox bikes, Skyteam st125. Any comments on one of those?


  • #10
    Pigeon Reaper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Pigeon Reaper


    travis1976 wrote: »
    Maybe one of those Chinese/Korean motox bikes, Skyteam st125. Any comments on one of those?

    Great for learning mechanics on and waiting for parts.


  • #11
    travis1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭travis1976


    Arn't they supposed to be rough copies of a honda. I read a thing on ebay from a chap who bought one and he reckoned it was a good little bike for the money. bit of a b*#*h to put together but a good 'un all the same.


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  • #12
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    hey - don't get me wrong, I love 2-strokes - but you could buy newer generation stuff that's much better, for same money. KDX200 for example. Maybe even a TS200X.

    Me? I bought an 04 GasGas Pampera 250 for me, and DR200 for her, on eBay, and had them delivered.

    All this of course, pending my putting the exhausts back on my RGV250K - which I've had since March 1991 .....LOL, those were the days.....:D :D:D

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #13
    travis1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭travis1976


    I've a Rd350lc at home in my brothers shed. He's gonna restore it. I gave it to him as I kept throwing it down the road, thought it was safer...


  • #14
    dubtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    The LC was the bike to die for back in the day,I mean that literally.


  • #15
    bushy...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭bushy...


    galwaytt wrote: »

    All this of course, pending my putting the exhausts back on my RGV250K - which I've had since March 1991 .....LOL, those were the days.....:D :D:D

    Some TZ (not tzr) pistons will go into some rgvs , might help it live on ... will give you an excuse to rip it down again anyway


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