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[QUOTE="oabike, post: 104147, member: 23245"] I had a 1978 MX-4 250. I got it from a dealer that sold ski-doos in the winter and was only open from 6-9pm cause he had another job. It was a second hand bike belonging to the only pro in our area and it was worked. I rode it in the dark and pulled the front end up in 4 gears and bought it for $500. For an extra $100 I got a matching set of Can-Am leathers,jersey and an open face helmet. We are talking factory! It had a fork extension kit and Works shocks to give it 12" of travel. Stock was 9.8". It was evil......... but it was cool. I still have the scar on my side were the pipe burned a hole in me when it fell on me in a muddy corner and I was trapped underneath it. I raced 6 motos on it and finished 2. I managed 4 holeshots(this bike was way fast). I remember the adjustable steering head and the Marzocchi forks. It was orange 20 years before orange was cool. I remember changing the tranny oil and loosening the bolt and ....boing...wrong bolt...and the kickstarter would hang limp. And the kick starter was on the left. You got off and kicked it side saddle. It had a square edge on the gas tank and I hit my nuts on it 100 times. It had the ugliest Super Trapp type silencer in the world. It had cool Sun rims with spikes on the inside of the rim to pop your tube and hold the tire when you gassed it. And speaking of gas, it had a Bing carb that you primed instead of choked. I remember the night before a race my friend was picking me up and he came over and I had the cases split and he said "your not going are you". We went and he raced the first moto and I raced his bike in the second moto. Thanks Frank. I wanted to be a motocross star more than life itself. Later that year a good friend, Billy Watson, died in a racing accident in Ohio. The bike got sold and motocross was forgotten. 20 years later I went to the Anaheim Supercross and watched Ernesto Fonseca win on a 4-stroke and something clicked. I sold my street bike 2 days later picked up a 250f and put on Billy's racing number #775. It was fate. We both got a second chance.... [/QUOTE]
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