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New Bike!! 1979 Husky OR 250
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[QUOTE="TVRider, post: 604391, member: 36242"] By TVRider: This is almost verbatim what he said. I didn't ask him to elaborate because in my ignorance I don't know what a TM400 is. The bike I rode was slow to wind up but seemed very fast once it got going. I think some of this was because I was uncomfortable with the suspension (the rear shocks didn't seem to work well with the bike). I think the other thing is that the bike was so hard to start that he machined the cylinder head dome to lower the compression and that took away low end. Come to think of it I mentioned that to the Vintage Iron guy and he said "there you go, if you lower the compression that will affect your low RPM power". If you look at the article that Oregon Trail posted by Rick Siemen, it shows the 450 Desert Master as 5 *'s and the 400 CR and WR as 9 *'s. That's about all I know. The bike I rode looked very good! and it was fairly easy to start (but not near as easy as the 250). I would listen to Oregon Trail, he has a 72 450 on his website that looks great and he is probably very experienced with them. I think the bike I looked up was just not a "runner". This guy had a 450 Desert Master new that he raced in California back in the day. He claims that it was a MUCH better runner than this bike. The other thing that made me decide against the 450 is he hemmed and hawwed and wouldn't name a price. I think because he used to race one, he just really doesn't want to sell it. When I first called him he told me about the 250 OR, but said he didn't want to sell it. He said he had some others that would make good project bikes. When I got out there I talked him into riding it, liked it and asked him for a price. He reluctantly, after a lot of uncomfortable silence, said $975. I said sold! His response was "I was afraid you would say that". He was probably afraid I would say the same thing if he gave me a price on the 450. He's just a really nice guy that likes fixing these bikes up. I pretty sure he's retired and it's his hobby. He's not in it for the money, he just likes Huskys and he loves to talk about them! That's everything I know! ;) Tom [/QUOTE]
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