Your Collection: 1978 Harley 250MX
Sunday, June 12, 2011 | 2:30 PM
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1978 Harley 250MX-
1978 Harley 250MX-
1978 Harley 250MX
-Pete
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wow..must been difficult to get parts for that bike..few were made..looks very nice. rocket rex staten used to race one.
Wow..beautiful I want one!!
Very cool to see one in new shape. The old girl sure did look good back in the day too, but she has the weight printed right on the tank, (250) and those forks and shocks , well...........and the number of knots that steel tank has mashed makes me shudder. abaut very cool to look at :)
yeah thats about all that bike was it was american made by a company that did not take their motocross devision seriously you had to be 90lbs just to win on that thing and yes rocket rex was to old to race at the time he was on that two man team ( Tommy Croft ) being the team mate should harley davidson thought a heavey bike was going to be on the podium ,hahaha look again no he could not compete with the maico breakos, or the cz ,kawasaki,yamaha,honda,husqvarna those teams back then was to much for this american tank the bike was just too heavey.
Wasn't the Hardly Ableson made by Cagiva?
Beautiful restore. I had a sponsored ride on the one with the forks on back and i don't remember it being that heavy. It didn't work (the rear) but it had a good motor and brakes. I think a large m.TRIPES rode one okay. This guy above thinks cz's were light.lol I had cz's and also a 72 husky 400 with steel tanks etc that friken weighed a ton. At least HD gave it a shot. Once again VERY nice restore on a cool old bike.
@jair Nice comment on the guys hard work....once again you show what a major POS dumba*s you are ...its an aermacchi motor......you no nothing!!!! sorry pete.
I wonder how it felt to line this bike up against CR250 or YZ250 in 1978. Feeling beat before the gate dropped?
HD didn't really build the bikes. They were built in Italy for AMF ( HD ) JUNK. Nice paint does not help the bike perform. Sorry Rex and Marty
That is a nice one ! It was so cool how many different bikes were available to race back in those days. We had representation from USA, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Sweden. Now only Japan and Austria.
Hey tonewall, you left wing stewart sucker, Cagiva made the Harley dirt bikes, so gargle on that one.
jairtime ..............................
Go ahead.....make my day
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@Tonewall's/Mr Know-It-All's comment to Jairtime...
YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!!
Thought Aermacchi built the whole bike. Guess I wrong? I know they built their (GP winning) early-mid 1970s 2stroke road-racers. Aermacchi knew how to build winning 2strokes. We can be sure it was Harley that effed it up. HD probably figured that if they got into MX, the AMA would rewrite the rules for them so HD won all the time. Just like they did in flat-track and killed it.
@kurt ...I don't even pretend to know it all .... I do know that Aermacchi was sold by HD AMF to the Castiglioni's who started Cagiva in 1978 . I really don't have to know much to no more than the racist stalker @jair., who needs to crawl back into that skidrow bums sack.
I have 9 bikes in my garage, some were not good to race, but nice on the eyes..... nice job on resto.....
1 more, unless ya had the $ for a set of fox air Shocks, simmons forks, triple clamps, handle bars, all the controls, and god knows what else these weren't the hot set up hehe, but I would imagine going to the gate on this , felt alot like going to the gate on a 1978 1/2 RM250C2, against the new CR250 it was painful.
But 1 heck of a restore, thanks for showing this classic piece..
Thanks for the kind words gang.Had it at Mt Morris Saturday under the Legends and Heroes tent. Taking it to Budds this weekend.
Pete
I used to have one, thing was a rocketship, but it handled like a pogo stick in the dirt. Cagiva used that motor program to win a few titles in the 80s.
By the way, ever have problems with the woodfiff key? Kept on shearin` mine off.
Woodriff....I think.....sorry.
Designing a bike back then looks more OCC than Nasa. That bike is just a Playboy centerfold - easy to look at but evil to live with. Well done.
I also remember those bikes and the Harley MX team another person was on the Harley team his name was Rick O'bryan. A few years ago Racer X had a story about the Harley Davidson MX team, Pretty sure?
Great job Pete -- how do you get parts for something like that?
Welker, your right on the story and O'Brien. He is in the article, I think a pic to.
Mark, some parts are out there. I was surprised that some dealers have NOS parts and some guys are reproducing others as well. A lot of research poking around and ebay.