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Replied by Winterwoods on topic And just who do you think you are?

Welcome Ted!

Glad to see you are still around these bikes.

I used to catch you on Mark's NW Vintage Cycle Forum
back when it was active.

Glad to see you here(a good source for 68-73 Enduros).



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Replied by Makotosun on topic And just who do you think you are?

Hi Ted! Good to see you here!

Lots of good resources available if you need them, and a lot of folks you haven't met who could not get onto the other forum. We have an expanding international crowd and we are all getting schooled in some of the neat bikes that were, and are, available outside of the USA.

Feel free to do some threads on your bikes as a lot of the folks here probably are not familiar with your rides!

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I'm Kat and have been riding off and on for almost 20 years, more in the last 5 than before though (city scooter driver and occasional basket cases before) and I'm by no definition an experienced expert, though I have never wrecked.
I bought my 1979 Yamaha DT250 in Montana about 2 years ago after selling my 1980 Honda Twinstar and realized I enjoyed dirt roads and going off road more than on them and although I did ok on my original/bald Honda tires and street shocks, the thing was just a weakling.
I've ridden the Enduro in Sedona, around Flagstaff and Missoula Montana, then I broke my leg (femur chip) by rolling my foot on a rock while trying to turn around the bike on a trail (ridiculous I know) and couldn't ride it for quite a while due to the kick start.
Anyway, I'm back on it, recently retook the safety course and got a Florida license, bought a new Street & Steel coat yesterday for autumn riding in the Smoky Mountains and my boyfriend got his first bike and license a few weeks ago (a 2004 Kawasaki drz400s).

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I look forward to looking up answers or asking questions about my bike. I'm semi-mechanical but we don't have anywhere to work on our bikes really. We travel full time in a 5th wheel toy hauler.

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Replied by Makotosun on topic And just who do you think you are?

Welcome! Kat!

Looks like a nice bike - I am becoming more enamored with the mono-shocks each time I work on one.

You will find good friends and lots of good technical info on the site! We are also well represented on Facebook.

Given you are pretty mobile (5th wheeler and all) you will need to try and come to one of the events we are affiliated with like Endurfest!
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Yay2 Thanks for the welcome
I have clutch problems just now so I'll be reading up on that some for sure.

We are mobile but somehow conveniently miss everything, like Evil Knievel festival in Montana and Endurfest in Moab (we were in soUtah last summer and won't be again for a long while). We work from home 5 days a week, ride or hike weekends, and stay places at least a month to get to know them, but if anything comes to the next random place we end up I'll be there!
We're in the deep south and east coast til next winter at least, then, Colorado ski and mining towns, Can't wait to ride there!
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Replied by thomas_77 on topic And just who do you think you are?

Hi! My name is Thomas and i´m from Germany. Maybe some of you know the American Airbase in Ramstein, that´s close to my home village.
I´m 37 years old and my first Yamaha was a DT 50R ( i was 16 years old). Now it´s about 20 years later and i own a few more... but the most in poor condition. my hobby is the restauration of old vehicles, but in the last years i worked only on classic cars. i own a 1973 BMW 2002, a 1973 Dodge Challenger and a 1979 Mercedes 280C. But cars are big, my garage is allmost full and i changed from cars to motorbikes. first projekt was a classic Honda CB 750 four. After that i was looking for a classic enduro and startet with an old Yamaha DT 400 MX (1979). After that i bought a DT 125e (1975 ?), a AT2 125 (1974?) a DT 250 Type 512 (1976) and hopefully i get a Yamaha DT1 from 1968 in the next weeks. i bought that on ebay in United Kingdom and i´m still waiting for the delivery. I did some research and it looks like a rt (because of black colour and red stripes) , but the seller gave me vin and motornumber and they start with DT1. I ad some pictures

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Replied by pntrbl on topic And just who do you think you are?

Nice work! You'll fit in around here!

And I concur on the DT1. The fin pattern on a 360 cylinder is different and the square swing arm is at least pre-70. More than that I can't say.
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Replied by thomas_77 on topic And just who do you think you are?

I let you know when it arrives. can´t wait to get it. hopefully it is a 68. but i wonder about the tach, shoudn´t it be different? i did some research and on a 68 the tach should be smaller than the speedometer? also, i saw only white 68 dt1.
Thats what the british seller wrote me:
" its a dt1-09xx on engine and frame so not a 360"
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Replied by MarkT on topic And just who do you think you are?


Welcome Thomas! You have great taste in motorcycles!

DT1-09xx is not enough serial number digits... should be at least 5 numbers after "DT1"?

But who knows what numbers they may have used in Europe.

Also, so many parts can be interchanged so you could have parts from several models and years. You are correct that the 1968 had the small tachometer.

Post up more pictures once you receive it and I'm sure the experts here will help identify!
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Replied by yamadmin on topic And just who do you think you are?

Welcome! That green 125 is a really neat machine!

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