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scotts Full Member
Joined: Apr 03, 2007 Posts: 689 Location: Rock Hill, SC
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:34 am Post subject: Champion Frame |
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What's a "Champion frame"? Some sort of tracker/dirt bike thing?
This is listed on CL near me:
charlotte.craigslist.o...57753.html
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yamaman Support Staff
Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 1638 Location: Perth Western Australia
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:01 am Post subject: Re: Champion Frame |
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Probably the same bike that's mentioned here:
www.650motorcycles.com...ea5172a497
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scotts Full Member
Joined: Apr 03, 2007 Posts: 689 Location: Rock Hill, SC
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:06 am Post subject: Re: Champion Frame |
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The frame sure looks different than the one in that link. How would you get the engine out with all that bracing in the way!?
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yamaman Support Staff
Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 1638 Location: Perth Western Australia
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:36 am Post subject: Re: Champion Frame |
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Sorry, I didn't check your link before. Yeah there both a fair bit different.
I don't think it has any frame underneath, semi stressed engine, the engine would just drop out!
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CaptDan Full Member
Joined: Aug 25, 2006 Posts: 20
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:07 am Post subject: Re: Champion Frame |
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"Renowned American dirt-track frame builder Doug Schwerma built his Champion frames to house Yamaha engines throughout the late sixties and seventies."
www.tz350.net/aftermar...m#champion
It seems to me that if anyone has the ability to get a real Champion frame, they should jump on it.
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CaptDan Full Member
Joined: Aug 25, 2006 Posts: 20
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:39 pm Post subject: Re: Champion Frame |
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CaptDan wrote: |
It seems to me that if anyone has the ability to get a real Champion frame, they should jump on it. | Just another thought on this...
I worked at a Triumph shop many years back, and the manager was clearing out the shop's old 1/2 mile and TT race bikes.
He would take a bike, strip it, then re-assemble it, adding just enough "road-legal" bits to allow the bike to be registered for the street.
Think about it: a Triumph 750cc (or 650cc with a Routt 750 kit) with an ARD magneto in a Champion (or Trackmaster or C&J) nickle-plated frame, Ceriani forks, Barnes hubs, Grimeca brakes, fiberglass bodywork -- essentially a ready-to-race flat track/TT bike -- with tiny lights, tiny mufflers, a bulb horn, and a tiny mirror. About 65-70hp and 310lbs.
He must have sold about 8-10 bikes set up like that. This was 20 years before the term "Street Tracker" was ever used.
Did I want one? Yeah, but I could only dream back then.
So when I hear about a Champion-framed XS650, those old jucies start to flow all over again.
Jump on it, Scotts! Imagine the 'Tracker you could build!
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