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  1. kanur

    Show Us Your Ty

    Here's a couple pics of mine. I've added Sammy Miller Betor trials shocks since these pictures were took.
  2. US/Penton = High Fender UE/Antelope = Low Fender
  3. Agricon that looks sweet. I would love to get to try out a nice Honda like that some day.
  4. Hi Gary, I didn't put Gary and Ohio together as you at first. I hated to miss M/O and now I really do, I would love to take that bike for a ride. I had a really nice 1992 BMW Paris Dakar that I was trying to get top dollar for and had a buyer coming from Dallas to Missouri that weekend. I hope you enjoy your venture into vintage trials as much as I have. I have no doubt you will excel at it and can't wait to see what you do with the 250.
  5. feetup, those bars look pretty nice. Here is what I would like to find. They are vintage Renthals and are very flat. I love the way they start angling up just past the clamps. These are on the wife's 175 and I bet she would notice if I swapped them. tony, the head is from a Yamaha DT 250, 75 or 76 I think. You have to trim a couple fins a little but no big deal. The combustion chamber is the same as the TY so it doesn't change anything but my head had a cracked fin and I liked the look of the radial head better. Plus they are dirt cheap on ebay. sorry I forgot to resize the picture.
  6. I picked up this well used 74 250 about a year and a half ago on the cheap. I have had a couple 175's but never a 250 and wanted to build one for the local ITSA series. Here's what I started with. And what I have now. I still need to decide what shocks I want to buy and I would love to find a set of vintage Renthall handlebars. I'm still playing with the footpeg location but over all I'm pretty pleased with it. I got most of the money I paid for the bike back by ebaying the stock parts I didn't use.
  7. What a gorgeous bike! I have been building a 250 and trying to make it look other than stock. I'm very proud of it but it's not as trick as yours.
  8. I have a Puch engined Dalsman Trials too that I have been working on. Here is a picture of the ad I bought it from. It's in pieces now slowly going back together. Here are a few more Dalesman pics you may enjoy.
  9. Thanks, I,m doing up a similar 250 but in different colors.
  10. what stmdabber said! If you go with fiberglass do your self a big favor and don't put anything but AvGas (LL100) in it. U.S. pump gas will clog my pilot jets and gum the slide so bad it will stick within a week. I have had the AvGas in two TY's for six months now with no problems.
  11. From what info I have been able to find about Sprites it seems one of the development/factory riders name was Dennis Jones. The irony here is that is also my name. To bad I don't have some of the talent. James Smith, Jeff Smiths son was at the AHRMA cross country race I had this bike delivered to and he had never saw one.
  12. Mines going to stay just as it is and it seems all the sections in these parts are also "turn up your own ar5s" Now that we have established our bikes are not Goldfingers, did they have a model mane or are they just Sachs powered Sprites. Bigshineybike feel free to use my pictures.
  13. Yeah, I haven't rode it yet but I bet it will seem weird.
  14. No problems here, thanks for the added info The amount of first hand knowledge about vintage trials bikes on this site is amazing
  15. Wow! Thanks for that link. I can use a few thing from there.
  16. Martyn, At this point all I have done is give it a good cleaning and I have a new set of alloy mudgaurds for it. Although they are very simple mine is missing a few key parts that yours still has. The exhaust was all cobbled up and completely rotten. I've had a lot of Sachs stuff so I have a head pipe and a Wassell muffler I can make work. I Believe my airbox is not stock as I have came across other pictures that show one like yours. I'll probably just put a pod or clamp on filter on it. The harder part, and you may be able to help here, is that the forks have been replaced with ones from a Honda TL 125. Someone made some bushings to make the forks fit the trees. I'm not sure what forks would have been on it. Jap forks on the little Sprite is just wrong. I've got a couple projects going on now so not sure when I'll start this one in earnest but plan to do as close to correct as possible while still being a rider.
  17. Well..........when I purchased mine it was not even advertised as a Sprite. In searching the net to find info on it this site http://www.thetwinshockshop.co.uk/bikes.php had the bike Martyn now has, advertised as a Sprite Goldfinger, and who was I to question a company that has that many bikes of the caliber they have. When I first posted up here about mine in this thread http://www.trialscentral.com/forums/topic/37940-picked-up-a-real-cream-puff-yesterday/ It was pointed out what a Goldfinger was and was not. As far as this thread goes I was just replying to a Guy who has the same bike as me and did not call it a Goldfinger and since I am not a Sprite guru I am not the one to tell what his bike is or is not, but I did make note that mine's tank did not ever appear to have been gold.
  18. Hi Martyn, I picked up the twin brother to your bike this summer. The tank on mine is the same color and does not appear to have ever been anything else.
  19. Yes it should be pretty easy. Paint the frame, alloy fenders, fork seals, maybe cut out some new side panels and lots of polishing. The motor still runs well so just a clean up and paint for it too.
  20. Coming along quite well Morten I plan to redo mine again this winter.
  21. You are mostly correct, the first KTM enduro bikes were built to John Penton specs and almost all the early ones came to the US. In the early 70's the ones sold every where else where badged KTM. After 1977 even the US bikes where just KTM's. As for the trials bikes, the Wassell factory built around 1000 of these with almost all of them going to the US through Penton Imports. They were John Penton's biggest failure. Trials never really caught on in the US in the 70's and even where it did the bikes were not competitive with the Bultacos and Montesas of the day. Penton had a hard time getting rid of them and for a time even required new dealers to take one as part of their start up package. By the last ones they were buggering them up all kinds of ways to clear them out. Now the little trials bike is one of the most sought after Pentons out there
  22. this past year with picking up British kit bikes. First last fall with the Saracen, then the Sachs powered Sprite this Summer, and now with a Penton / Wassell. I first bought this bike in 1997, then restored it to a competition level and rode it a lot and like a dummy sold it. Getting it back was like a time warp. All these years it has been sitting on display in an office and it is exactly like it was when I sold it. I hope I don't make that mistake again.
  23. kanur

    fun in the garage

    Very Nice I'm doing something similar with a 250.
 
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