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Phawrrrrrrr anyone know who built this???


Cause it's stonking smile

 

Look here and prepare to want it



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Hmmmm nice ..... !!

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Maybe JR Lightly has moved and resprayed his old bike...? 



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its a import poss, yamaha made two versions of the xt 500 same as xt but nil lights

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Very Nice but pity it doesnt have the name plate Cheney on it



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To be honest it doesn't float my boat.  Doesn't look aggressive enough.



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Had one of the originals for a couple of years after I rebuilt it for a friend, but he wouldn't sell it to me so I gave it back to him (didn't want to spend out on a bike which wasn't going to be mine!). Since then it has sat in a barn for 20 years - wonder if it's still there?

I enjoyed it, but it needed to be treated with respect and was not a particularly fun motorway cruiser or much good off-road due to the weight and lack of brakes!

He'd want big money for it now, though, I reckon.



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I had one for four yrs and rode it too and fro work every day (honiton -sidmouth) only let me down once then i went to cms and had a thread re tapped and at work for 11 am winkbiggrinbiggrin

Not good on the lanes but fun and yes the brakes were ****e along with 6v leccys disbelief

But that awesome thumper low down grunt was loverly and put a smile on my face everytime i zoomed up out of honiton to the lovely flat top and the same the other way round going up sidbury hill (before the 40mph) biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

Must find some pics

did you know

XT 500 entered desert Rallies in 1976 in the second edition of the first rally of this type organised, the "Paris-Abidjan-Nice" also called "Côte d'Ivoire-Côte d'Azur". Four official XTs were at the start on December 29, 1976. They were completely standard with the exception of a 25 liter fuel tank and a sturdy luggage carrier supporting tools and two 5 litre jerry cans. Aside those machines, engaged by the French importer, were 14 other XTs. It was a fantastic success, a total of 10 XTs finished the hard endurance desert race where Gilles Comte took the victory. For years XT and Paris-Dakar Rally were words that belonged together. In 1979 and 1980, Cyril Neveu won on an XT 500



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