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16th July 2012
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Chief Master Mechanic
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Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 487 Sportster/Buell Model: XR 750 Sportster/Buell Year: 1972 Sportster/Buell Model #2: RR 250 Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1976
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Originally Posted by DR DICK
my 60r has r model p grinds.
hollow with the ball bearing shafts pressed in them.
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Funny thing about those ... when they ran TT's on them, the fast guys found that every time they'd detune the engine they went quicker. If they made parade cams for a Sportster they'd have tried that. They probably could have gone quickest on a flathead 
Did they ever run the XR at TT's or was the real Class C racing over by then ? I have vague memories of iron XLR's still running TT's even after the alloy engine came out but that couldn't have been for long ? |
16th July 2012
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Senior Bike Builder
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 1,944 Sportster/Buell Model: KHK Sportster/Buell Year: 1954 Sportster/Buell Model #2: XLC Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1958 Other Motorcycle Model: XLRTT Other Motorcycle Year: 1966
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Hi Barefoot,
The AMA got rid of the TT 55ci class in the early 70s but I don't know the exact date...
Patrick
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16th July 2012
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Chief Master Mechanic
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Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 487 Sportster/Buell Model: XR 750 Sportster/Buell Year: 1972 Sportster/Buell Model #2: RR 250 Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1976
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Originally Posted by thefrenchowl
The AMA got rid of the TT 55ci class in the early 70s but I don't know the exact date...
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Finally found the rules ...
http://www.dairylandclassic.com/rules.html
Looks like 1972 would be the last year for the 883 ... Sounds right because I could swear I remember a photo of Mark Brelsford with the #1 plate at Houston on a Sportster.
They did run the alloy XR at TT's after that but seems like TT racing was losing popularity fast. That's too bad, you could always expect some Joe Schmo to come out of nowhere at a TT and embarrass the big name professionals |
16th July 2012
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Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 3,159
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Originally Posted by barefoot
Finally found the rules ...
http://www.dairylandclassic.com/rules.html
Looks like 1972 would be the last year for the 883 ... Sounds right because I could swear I remember a photo of Mark Brelsford with the #1 plate at Houston on a Sportster.
They did run the alloy XR at TT's after that but seems like TT racing was losing popularity fast. That's too bad, you could always expect some Joe Schmo to come out of nowhere at a TT and embarrass the big name professionals |
yeah team Schmo. the heart and soul of dirt tracks everywhere.
the grin on a schmo riders face when he is walking thru the pits- trophy dangling from his good arm.
ah- there was noting better for the sport. |
16th July 2012
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Know It All
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Peoria, IL
Posts: 172 Sportster/Buell Model: XLH Sportster/Buell Year: '60 Other Motorcycle Model: xs650 Other Motorcycle Year: '72
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you guys are the biggest sportster nerds ever .... I love it
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17th July 2012
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Senior Bike Builder
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 1,913 Sportster/Buell Model: xlh convert to xlch Sportster/Buell Year: 1978 Sportster/Buell Model #2: xlch Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1972
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Originally Posted by sevenyears of famine
you guys are the biggest sportster nerds ever .... I love it
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i think that for most of us, our lives revolve around our bikes..... at least mine does..... i have no life outside of work and my bikes..... its all i can think about.... im obsessed..... i hope to be as big or a bigger sportster nerd than these guys when i grow up...... 
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17th July 2012
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Senior Chief Harley Engineer
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 1,077 Sportster/Buell Model: xlch sportster Sportster/Buell Year: 1969
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As a Big Twin rider for 30 years, I finally got hip to the fact that SPORTSTERS effin' RULE! Nothing has so completely defined for me what it is to ride a Harley than my last year living with Animal Mother. Let's rewrite the old AMF motto: "Until you've ridden an Ironhead Sportster, you haven't ridden a Harley-Davidson."
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17th July 2012
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Chief Master Mechanic
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Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 487 Sportster/Buell Model: XR 750 Sportster/Buell Year: 1972 Sportster/Buell Model #2: RR 250 Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1976
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Originally Posted by DR DICK
yeah team Schmo. the heart and soul of dirt tracks everywhere.
the grin on a schmo riders face when he is walking thru the pits- trophy dangling from his good arm.
ah- there was noting better for the sport.
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You hit it right on the nose, Doc. When the AMA started kowtowing to the Factories and the Sponsors and Big Money !! and started having dreams of being featured on Robin Leach, they lost it. Motorcycle racing has never been as good since they sold out. Jerks.
I ran USAC and BCRA with some people for many years. Normal sensible guys who are good drivers ..... until network teevee showed up at Turkey Night one year. As soon as the cameras showed up all their brains fell right out their ass. What the hell happened to our country, that our heroes changed from tough independent people like Dick Mann to big sissy whiners like 98% of our "celebrities" are today ? Grovelling for money, it's pretty disgusting. |
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Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 3,159
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Originally Posted by barefoot
You hit it right on the nose, Doc. When the AMA started kowtowing to the Factories and the Sponsors and Big Money !! and started having dreams of being featured on Robin Leach, they lost it. Motorcycle racing has never been as good since they sold out. Jerks.
I ran USAC and BCRA with some people for many years. Normal sensible guys who are good drivers ..... until network teevee showed up at Turkey Night one year. As soon as the cameras showed up all their brains fell right out their ass. What the hell happened to our country, that our heroes changed from tough independent people like Dick Mann to big sissy whiners like 98% of our "celebrities" are today ? Grovelling for money, it's pretty disgusting.
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the ama competition committee: manufacturers reps, top dealers, and top riders.
the schmo competion committee:
a ratty bike, a milk crate, 64 dodge van (snow tires on the front to keep the headshake down due to the shot kingpins) cranky ol lady sleepin in back, jake the dog sleepin on passenger seat. 5 empty packs of luckys on dash.
and all of that in shinin thru the brown speckeled grin.
it was a much more homespun backslappin time.
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17th July 2012
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Senior Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: 37° 17' 45" N by 79° 53' 49" W
Posts: 2,513 Sportster/Buell Model: XLCH Sportster/Buell Year: 1975
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Originally Posted by DirtyCory
i think that for most of us, our lives revolve around our bikes..... |
haha yeah, my wife hates all you guys (and gals)...! guess she's just jealous.
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