Help Me Compile An Extensive Dual-Sport List?

[kellymac530]

chas is right you could plate a pull start minibike in the 70s and 80s so if someone is looking for a ds bike you might find any number dirt bikes even 2 strokes mx bikes with a plate on it into possibly even the 90s.

[ThumpNRed]

So does that mean street legal?

Yes. My first bike was a '72 DT125.

[MotoChris521]

honda also made an mr185 that was a street legal ds

I believe the MR was a 175 and an off road enduro model.

Honda did offer 2 two smoke dual sports , the MT125 and MT250,kinda CR styled.

[wvdualsport]

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned yet. I rode the crap out of this thing when I was like ten years old. It was street plated. Mid-seventies vintage. I think they called in a Suzuki RV-125.

This is not an original pic, just one I scrounged up on the net.

[kellymac530]

I believe the MR was a 175 and an off road enduro model.

Honda did offer 2 two smoke dual sports , the MT125 and MT250,kinda CR styled.

you are probably right mr 175 not 185 and the mt was the street model.

loooonnnnggg time ago....ive been hit on the head ALOT since the 70s?

40 years of mx racing and crashing

good catch ?

[Fisher Seats]

They made a KLX 650C from '93-'96. Like in my avatar.

[DRX350]

Honda:

I believe there was an Ascot 500 DS version

I also believe that there was even a CX500 adventure bike overseas

Don't forget the NX400 and 650

Yamaha:

XT series

DT series went down to 50cc street legal

they made a RT 250 and 400 in the 70's

Kawisaki:

Cant forget the short lived CT175

Suzuki:

Do you dare to forget the DR350

or the DR400, or the DR750/800 overseas?

[kellymac530]

here is an amazing collection i found on line of some guys collection. holy crap if this is ONE guys stuff, he is seriously sick....i love him...but he has a real problem...and alot more money than me. there alot of cool alternative ds bikes in here

http://msvintagebikes.com/mybikes.htm

look at all the pages, holy crap

[Countdown]

chas is right you could plate a pull start minibike in the 70s and 80s so if someone is looking for a ds bike you might find any number dirt bikes even 2 strokes mx bikes with a plate on it into possibly even the 90s.

I got a plate on a home made Tote Goat in early 60's. It had a dry cell brake light, mirror, adn bulb horn.

[Countdown]

The Honda "SL"s were before the XL's and they were Honda's answer to the CL Scramblers ,

SL 70 / 90 / 100 / 125 / 175 / 350 1969-1974 ,The first XL was a 250 in 1972.

all where street legal

The Honda Scramblers were "CL"'s, "CB"s were the street versions back then.

There also was a 450 twin.

[DRX350]

and the 350 twin, it kinda looked like this (here's a 1970).

[kellymac530]

nobody has commented on that bitchin calender photo page of all those awesome old school ds bikes???

http://msvintagebikes.com/mybikes.htm

like 4 pages of cool

[MotoChris521]

and the 350 twin, it kinda looked like this (here's a 1970).

Aww..... the ol' SL350.

I had two of those suckers. Used to hammer them around the track at Indian Dunes(on practice day's).?

[MotoChris521]

nobody has commented on that bitchin calender photo page of all those awesome old school ds bikes???

http://msvintagebikes.com/mybikes.htm

like 4 pages of cool

all i can say is WOW !

That dude is awesome !?

He has many of the old bike's that I had in the past, all in pristine condition.(unlike mine were )

rd350

rm250

tm400

sl350

xl350

sl125

[Superpacman13]

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, gotten really busy. Probably do it tonight. Thanks so much for all the awesome responses!

[DRX350]

Aww..... the ol' SL350.

I had two of those suckers. Used to hammer them around the track at Indian Dunes(on practice day's).?

I was never brave enough to take it on the track, but I did take it up the windies. These things could really scoot. In the straight, I got her up to 80.

Later, I got the thing up to 105mph (once I had it jetted and new tires).

They really don't like trying to run on one carb though, that's how she died.

Back to the OP;

If we're going real far back, then there are several british models that were "dual-sport". The guys used to ride the Iron beasts in the 6 days enduro. Unfortunately I cannot remember any of the models right now.

[kellymac530]

husky, cz, puch, sachs, dkw,bsa victors, triumph cub and tiger cub, greeves, penton, and rickman.....dont remember all of the specific models, maybe some other guys memories will be jogged....what a growth in the sport in 40 yrs

[grreatdog]

How about we flesh out the DT & XT list since those were my thing back in the day:

Let's forget the DT1-3 (68-73) since there was no real separation of function until the DT/IT split. They were actually dual sport as we think of them today. But I assume we want to get into the era of specialized dirt only bikes models being separate, so:

DT100 (74-77)

DT125 (74-76)

DT175 (74-76)

DT250 (75-79)

DT400 (75-78)

note: 78 was the transition to monoshock on all models so I guess they skipped the 77 model year on 125's and 175's

DT125 (78-82)

DT175 (78-81)

DT100 (81-83)

DT80 (81-83)

Then the smokers ended and begat the XT's:

XT500 (76-81)

XT250 (80-84)

XT125 (82-83)

XT200 (82-83)

XT550 (82-83)

XT600 (84-95)

XT350 (85-00)

XT225 (92-07)

XT250 (08-??)

Now some Kawasakis from back in day:

Again skipping the "F" models (not that Pighorns weren't interesting) even though they were dual sport bikes since their was no separate street and offroad versions until the KE/KD split:

KE100 (76-86)

KE125 (76-82)

KE175 (76-82)

KE250 (77-79)

Two strokes end, I bought an XT200 and I lost interest in Kawasaki. So I know nothing about the KL series that followed.

Best I can do.

Edited March 4, 2010 by grreatdog

[kellymac530]

nice list gd

[wvdualsport]

Don't rag on me too much for this. My dad brought me a bike home in three or four five gallon buckets. I think it was a 1970...maybe a little earlier. 90cc HD Dirtbike that had a plate on it when I got it. I have no idea who in their right mind would have ridden this little death trap on the road, but anyways I'm sure no one would have ever mentioned this one! I don't have any photo's of me riding my little junker scanned in (for various reasons), but I found a pic on the internet of an identical bike(except mine had a crack in the gas cap that I had a bottle cork stuffed in ? ).