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General Discussion => Penton Talk => Topic started by: tmc3c on December 12, 2002, 07:07:31 AM

Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: tmc3c on December 12, 2002, 07:07:31 AM
I just got the new issue of RACER X magazine and there is a SWEET mc5 in the magazine!!Will the owner please take a bow! Is this your bike Rocket?

Thomas Carmichael
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: Mick Milakovic on December 12, 2002, 08:18:57 AM
Is it sacrilidge to admit reading something other than a vintage pub!?  I saw it, too.  Definitely a show bike.

Mick Milakovic
Delphi, IN
765-268-2570
[email protected]
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: Rocket on December 12, 2002, 12:44:36 PM
I believe that bike is in Las Vegas in the Primm collection.  I have a web address for this at home, I'll post this evening, very interesting.
Rocket

 
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: tmc3c on December 12, 2002, 11:46:06 PM
Yeah I see it is owned by the primm collection but I still thought it looked like your handy work!

Thomas Carmichael
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: tmc3c on December 12, 2002, 11:47:18 PM
Yeah, I see it is owned by the primm collection but I still thought it looked like your handy work Rocket!!

Thomas Carmichael
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: tmc3c on December 13, 2002, 05:08:11 AM
I couldn't stand it,I would have a extra tank and I would ride it,race it,show it off at every trail ride and hare scramble I went to! How about you? I hope to be living this dream with my 76 250gs one day!!

Thomas Carmichael
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: Mick Milakovic on December 13, 2002, 07:11:03 AM
Maybe not race, but gotta ride.  With today's supply of parts getting better and the exchange of information improving, a bike like this could conceiveably run AND look great forever!

Mick Milakovic
Delphi, IN
765-268-2570
[email protected]
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: dirtbike on December 13, 2002, 07:46:51 AM
I would ride it carefully, not racing but with another 10 yrs or so I would default to store and preserve mode.

 
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: tmc3c on December 13, 2002, 08:17:04 AM
Just think,down here in South Carolina you don't see many PENTON's and if you were to roll up to the line with a baby doll like this one from the primm collection,think of the heads that would be turning!!This bike that we are talking of is a baby still its a 1977,still ready to roost!!

Thomas Carmichael
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: tomale on December 13, 2002, 09:53:13 AM
I saw it too and I don't think that it is a bad idea to read such a mag. I picked it up just for the Primm collection of bikes. Racer is not like the other rags on the market. I have a 76' MC5 250 is this bike rare? I bought it new and I don't know whether to ride it or sell it. It is a bit rough but is still in riding conditon.

 
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: tmc3c on December 14, 2002, 12:57:42 PM
Tomale, Keep it and restore,along and along,you have a great bit of History in your hands.The guys here in the POG site will bend over backwards to help.I can attest to it.

Thomas Carmichael
Title: 1977 250mc5
Post by: tomale on December 16, 2002, 07:32:10 PM
thanks, I think I will. I Have not been to a  vintage race yet but I am looking forward to it. I don't think it will take too much to return it to near show room condition. If I am correct there were not too many KTM's I was told that the bikes rolled off the production floor as both KTM and Penton's the only difference was the name on the side of the tank. The only KTM's that I had seen up to that point was what the pro's were racing. At the time I thought That I was getting close to turning pro and were going to ride the nationals and a privateer you rode the 250 support class. It never happened and I slipped into the abyss along with the rest of the want a be pro's  Now I am old enought to remember the good times and enjoy riding for what it should be. Good "clean" fun.

I raced my 76 MC5 in the early 70 but just now getting backe into riding again.
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