Show us a picture of your Twinshock or Classic Trials bike

Post by **David Lahey** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:15 pm

Not a Queensland bike but certainly a fantastic looking bike by Pommy Col Phillipson from NSW at the 2005 Aussie Titles at Canungra

Post by **David Lahey** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:20 pm

One of Darryl Martin's cool and competitive SWM trials bikes at the Twinshock and Classic Masters, Conondale

Post by **David Lahey** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:28 pm

One of my babies. A Restored TY250B at the 2005 Easter 2 day Trial, Bennoble, Qld. This bike was put together from three basket cases and many of hours of labour over about three years.

Post by **David Lahey** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:38 pm

Another recent restoration of mine. Not museum standard but enough to make it look how it would have looked at the time, and ready for competition.
Bultaco M49 Sherpa T from very early in the production run (1968)

Post by **David Lahey** » Mon May 28, 2007 5:09 pm

Here's a twinshock bike with a history I know very well as I have owned it since 1976 when I bought it second hand. It was battered around and seized but I could afford to buy it!

Photo 3 bike as I bought it (still looked like a Yamaha at that stage) taken by John Heidemann, Lacey's Creek, 1976. Unidentified psycho rider
Photo 2 is is the same TY175B in another guise - black frame, blue tank, laid down Konis and same unidentified psycho rider at Lacey's Creek near Brisbane, 1977. Photo by George McKenzie.
Photo 1 slightly later (about 1980) guise with plastic mini-MX fuel tank, bright orange mudguards (yuk) testing the water in a billabong on my Dad's farm, Victoria Point, Brisbane - again same psycho rider - I wish he would get off my bike. Photo by George McKenzie
Photo 4 How boring is that - the same TY175B but now very original looking and being sedately ridden by some old bloke at the Qld Titles in 2005.

Post by **David Lahey** » Mon May 28, 2007 5:13 pm

Here is photo 4 - (only three photos per posting)

Post by **David Lahey** » Mon May 28, 2007 9:25 pm

Heres another bike with a history

In 1995 my TY175B was in a sorry, run-down state and I was having lots of trouble getting replacement parts for it. Being keen to ride in the upcoming Aussie Titles at Thunderbird Park, Mt Tamborine (Queensland), I had just moved to Gladstone and was on the lookout for a twinshock trials bike in going condition.
Just Bikes magazine had an ad for a very original looking TY250A at the Harley dealer at Bundaberg (only 3 hours away). I phoned up and they agreed to stay open till I could get there that night at about 7:30PM. I couldn't believe what I saw. It had never been ridden in a trial as was witnessed by the original fibreglass bashplate without a mark and the original flimsy Yamaha handlebars unbent and no dents in the exhaust or tank - amazing. It had been ridden though. The Harley dealer said the owner was a (sugar) cane farmer who had used it to collect the mail! There was 3000km on the speedo. The original tyres and original sprockets matched that usage.
Anyway I couldn't buy it fast enough. In preparation for the titles it got new tyres, solid aluminium handlebars, an aluminium chequerplate bashplate and new road bike type KONI shockies (they were all I could find for it at the time)
The old photo is at the titles in 1995 at Thunderbird Park.
The new photos are at a recent riding demonstration at a Rockhampton Heritage Village Market day (photos courtesy Drew Wickerson). The bike is still original and unrestored and runs like a swiss watch.

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Mon May 28, 2007 9:26 pm

some good pics there David! I have found the same in an old VMX mag the other day.

restoremaz · Post by **restoremaz** » Mon May 28, 2007 10:35 pm

yeah top photos David, well done.

So all TYs that are the white and yellow, should be before 1976?

Post by **David Lahey** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:39 am

No just the 1975 models are white and yellow. 1974 are the same yellow but the other colour is a metallic cream colour called tober pearl.

The B models (175 and 250) were quite a bit better to ride than the A model 250 so it was relatively rare to see TY250As at trials after the B models came out.