"1983 HONDA CR480" ['EASTCOASTVINTAGE' POOTUBE] . . . . THIS BEAST GIVES ME THE FUCKING HORN, DID THEN, DOES NOW . . . . FROM A PERIOD IN TWO STROKE DIRT DUMPERS WHEN TOO MUCH POWER JUST WASN'T ENOUGH . . . . HONDA, YAMMY, KWAKA, SUZI, HUSKY, MAICO . . . . MENTAL MOTOCROSS MADNESS BUSTIN THE BERMS !!!!

BEEN TOYING WITH STICKING THIS UP FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS, JUST NEVER HAD THE URGE UNTIL NOW, IT HAD TO FEEL RIGHT, A BIT LIKE SOME CHICKS WITH THEIR CHERRY POP . . . . THIS FREAKIN IMMACULATE RESTO IN ALL OF TWENTY SECONDS AT FULL NOISE TELLS A THOUSAND DIRTY TALES OF BIG BORE MOTOCROSS LUNACY THAT PUNCTUATED THE EARLY EIGHTIES . . . . FAIRLY SOON THE NEW AGE FOUR STROKES WOULD START THEIR ASCENDANCY AND ULTIMATELY, THESE KIDNEY KILLERS WOULD FADE FROM VIEW.

They were fucking beastly things, whether it was the CR/YZ/RM/KX jiggers or their European competition, Maico, Husky, CZ, KTM and even the once great Bultaco, there was the enduro varients as well, the IT 465 in particular was a powerband assisted trench digger you could road register for fuck's sake . . . . a mate at uni spent his entire tertiary assistance cheque on one and was stupid enough to let me 'attempt' to ride it on the Union College oval one arvo . . . . FAAARRRKKK !!!! When the powerband kicked in it nearly ripped my fucking arms off at the shoulders, I went straight into some well placed bushes, burnt my leg and my ego . . . . bike 1, rider 0 . . . . huge learning curve and total humiliation was the only result

Anyhoo, the glorious example in this vid gives you a perty good idea of the latent grunt the CR480 was stashing in it's guts, new valve technology, expansion chamber development and a mess of other refinements made this thing a stone cold killer, soon uprated to the 500, they and their ilk were a dirt track pinnacle of the day . . . . not unlike the last of the two stroke GP bikes that lasted from a similar period until the widowmaker freaks of the nineties . . . . big testicles were not an option !!!