The Slackster
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 Posted: 14:18 - 06 Sep 2011  Post subject: What happened to my old Super-Dream |
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My friend and I got bored one weekend quite a few years ago and took it out on my 250 Super Dream. 
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Posted: 17:22 - 06 Sep 2011  Post subject: |
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Looks better than stock 
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pepperami
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| Posted: 19:25 - 06 Sep 2011 Post subject: |
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F*ck me that`s gonna be loud, someone`s nicked your exhaust 
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Teflon-Mike
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| Posted: 19:53 - 06 Sep 2011 Post subject: |
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| Nexus Icon wrote: | Looks better than stock |
Tend to agree!
https://www.bikechatforums.com/download.php?id=80347
Few thoughts nag at me though; first if it had them wire wheels from stock, then it wasn't a Super-Dream.... 250T perhaps?
Next; the 'big-block' twins were FUCKING heavy beasts!
Weighing in at a 'quoted' 186Kg its damn nearly as hefty as my 750!
Plastic mudguards and loss of silencers may go SOME way to addressing that err.... obesity.... but I would not think by MUCH!
The 250T also only had a meagre 16bhp available......
WHICH isn't actually all THAT bad, old air-cooled DT400, considered something of a 'beast' off-road, in its day, only made 21, the 250 version barely 18.... but they were considered a 'bit lardy' at 135Kg....
Compared to the DT175MX, which delivered 16.5bhp, within a whisker as much as the 250, but weighed in, in street trim, in the show room, a mere 99Kg!
As a starting point for a green-lane special.... well it wouldn't exactly be my FIRST choice!
Though does take me back to my youth; as a lad not quite old enough to have a licence when the 125 learner laws were introduced, such creations made regular appearances.... over local waste-land, the torn up old railway line & embankments!
They'd get them up to some speed on the line bed, but would normally NOT manage any 'big-air' off the embankements....
Though ONE lad did manage some fairly spectacular 'air' on a Honda 250 twin of dubiouse oragin.....
He got the thing up to about, I'd guess 50, and was catching up to one of the lads who had a Miaco..... dead set on catching the 'propper scrambler'..... and really fired up that he seemed to be reeling him in... he didn't realise until the Miaco did an almost dead stop and dissapeared into the brambles down the embankment, that what LOOKED like miles of empty track-bed.... well, ENDED only a hundred yards or so ahead......... at a BLOWN UP BRIDGE!
He braked... briefly.... fish tailed wildly, and ultimately FELL OFF.....
Conveniently...... because the bike, on its side, carried on down the track the last 20 yards or so...... and FELL OFF the end of the bridge.....
Lad was pretty banged up, and apparently dragged half way home, and thence to casualty.....
Local cops hassled us all for a few weeks, but, the epitaph was the lad's mate, who kept the bike in his shed; after recovering the wreckage, took the back wheel and mudguard back to the line under the bridge and half burried them sticking out the weeds, like the whole bike was burried nose first!
Crazy Days!
Fun, none the less.
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