I am very familiar; owned & raced this bike in 77/78. Best finish 3rd in Amateur National. But, reportedly, the first 100 (mine was #50) in the country had a factory tweaked motor. I pulled the holeshot on a Puch GP 250 that dyno*d @ 44HP. It was competitive against the other folks in the local Open Pro class. Best accessories for this bike was Fox shocks & Gunnar Gasser throttle; mine had both plus a few more tweaks. My current Vintage ride is a 79, great bike also.

Thank you for posting this!! Me and my brother ride a 78 and 80 Red Rocket. Riding them really makes you appreciate modern bikes but they are fun. Great to just look at! Keep up he good work!

Love the history lesson and vintage footage...Amazing how fast some of those guys were on the old bikes...Thanks for the video!

A beautifull vintage bike of dreams it's a lovely best bike for 1978

Awesome stuff, had a 79 as a kid actually 3 79's my buddy my younger brother at 12 crazy I was 15 Awesome time Great video Thank you for bringing back the memories 😀

i went with my buddy in high school to pick up his brand new cr 250 april 1978 batavia honda true story

Your research and presentation of these videos is truly amazing!

Great research loved your old videos I’m restoring a 79 250 I love that Tahitian red it’s easy on the eyes. Thank God for the internet it would be very hard to find parts with out it. Thanks from Alaska

Love the home videos. Brings back memories.

great presentation, all correct.

Great Bikes and Great video, Thanks for showing them. :)

Thanks you made my day as always loved the Red Rocket that's what we called it in the UK and the first time I seen a new one wheeled out off a van that all red paint jum jum! As I had a 78 YZ250e which I loved and had so much fun riding against the Hondas.

Awesome video. Thank you 😃🤘🏼

@TheMotocrossVault

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

Best video yet.

I remember the only 250 that could out grass drag this bike was the canam

Best looking bike ever

I had 75, 76 and 79 250's and the 76 was actually a well balanced package with a set of Luft shocks and a Terry kit in the fork........but the 78 and 79 was just SO cool! I felt like I was on Team Honda with my Fox Shox and Simons. It WAS the trickest looking bike out and the motor was awesome but I felt it actually had too much travel to turn as well as the earlier bikes. Having a Husky 390 I had a special HATE for the left side kick/right side drive as well.

I saw this bike body slam my cousin once, he was a good rider too, he was going around a curve shifted to 3rd and it came on all at once like a shotgun and slammed him good to the hosp he went lol they were unpredictable they would come on at diff rpms some times so u never know when its comming lol

Maybe best video yet

The full-floating rear brake not only isolated the rear suspension, but was pro-squat at the rear under braking which would still be desirable. Makes no sense to me why it is not used as reducing forward chassis pitch under braking will ALWAYS be a good thing.

Awsome could we get the blue mortor rms 86 to 88 had the 87 rm 125 it got me many holeshots at the local track it 14 years old when i raced it cheers

@TheMotocrossVault

4 жыл бұрын

Bobby D absolutely 👍🏻

From a CT90 to an Elsinore, big change

@TheMotocrossVault

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it was! Lucky I survived

12;20 your chain guide is on backward

What Japanese brand would you consider as being most tech dominant in motocross over the decades?

@TheMotocrossVault

4 жыл бұрын

halfasheep wow-that is an interesting question. I don’t think there can be any one answer to that. Over the last 50 years all the big four have had their turns pushing development forward. If I had to pick one I would say Yamaha, but I truly think they have each made major tech contributions at different times

@channel1_channel

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheMotocrossVault cheers man!

@markusrice9610

4 жыл бұрын

I'd have to say Yamaha.

What does cr stand for?

@jameshansen6019

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, it stands for "competition racer". greetings from Torbay, new Zealand.

@robspear03

Жыл бұрын

@@jameshansen6019 incorrect. Close Ratio.

Great bike, but it needed another higher gear.

good video! i love the 78 250 Elsinore, check out my channel I have a video there of mine😁

my '79 has a steel tank