Kawasaki Power To The Ground Vintage Motocross

[TheMadmostin]

Awsome, i'd like to hear the bikes a bit more though. Oh and a uni track back end! How did the competition ever stand a chance. No wonder my Dad bought me a kx80 1986 as a first bike.

[couldntfinduser123]

That was a great video I really wish I was able to ride back then :( but I was born in '97 and I'm stuck where riding is illegal everywhere and 80% of people my age are in love with life wasting video games but thank god I'm not one of those people. Kawasaki...live forever

[g3rtr0x]

i love this cuz this, even though its before my time, its from a time when the biggest thing was rider ability not the most badass feature, 1981-"take this and this better with uni track" 2011-"have the fastest bike, even if u cant reach the pegs if its the fastest u will win" the stupid shit we hear these days

[tpowell453]

I still jump like that. On a modern bike... lol

[rockypup1968]

ha ha ha the anouncers on heroin !!!

[micknofx]

I <3 my 83 KDX250!

[danielligocenzo]

hey, i didnt know Barry White like motocross!!!

[2stroke1971]

AHRMA.ORG people. How it was is how it is. Vintage MX!!

[ktm3009v]

Saw this Video back in the day (1982) and the sound and quality was better then. Rode a 1982 Kawi 250. Broke the hub, frame, throttle housing, cylinder exhaust bridge and bolt holding the Unitrak together. Four DNF's due to mechanical failure.

[cat123456789101]

well if they put up with these ''shit boxes'' in 1981 , why cant people put up with them now???

[Rocket9k]

These bikes were shit? Really? And the Hondas, Yamahas and everything else in the early 80's weren't? lol

[stratboy8]

Open face helmets, Scott plastic boots...riding gear that matched your bike...halcyon days.

[NikodemusNikodemus]

lol I heard "Kawasaki...builds motocross machines...for women" ;D

[flyinbryan1619]

sharks have a week dedicated to this narrator,,,,,,,,,he is,,,,,,,,,, the most interesting man in the world. he doesn't always drink beer,,,,,,but when he does,,,,,,he prefers dos equis.

[motokev]

what was that 2 stroke motor oil I loved to smell in the 70s

KLOTZ ? man, it smelled good ! especially at 20:1

[DaNuWaGiLi]

@motokev OMG : Castor " R " with Race Fuel - The Memories that rush back with the smell...LOL

[94Clubsport]

the guy talking i bet wears leather chaps with the butt cut out!!

[musiclovr2]

hell yea lol i still have my 81 kx420, my 1st motocross bike , going from twin shock junkers to the mono is like heaven hahahaha, it does soak up jumps,and landings , but the bike is heavy

[muzzmatrix]

Warren Reid & Larry Wosick...........the perfect factory riders for Kawasaki in at this time as the good times generally past them by. There bikes were shit & so was most of their hired help (Jeff Ward & Gaylon Mosier excluded).

[Mr11151968]

i love this video watched it over and over again.

[jstrunck]

Anybody remember the "Team Green Gazette"?

[jhareng]

Just one major gripe, all the bikes in this video are 1980 except the road race at start.

1980 was when the Unitrack came out with the KX A6 models.

Rm had similar idea except it didnt work very well but had a better engine by 81.

[123212k8]

he sound like SAW

[zx6arrrgh]

0:49 -first nac nac? :P

[SkeeboDa1]

@zx6arrrgh LMAO!! Funny, I would tend to lean that the guy was thinking about letting go because he didnt know what to do..

[pmay222]

mx was much much better then...its all ski jumps nowdays...fukking boring

[GreatBritainRob]

1.25, dodging desert cactus at speed.

Cool, always a big help here in Britain :o)

[tms870]

check out the nac-nac @48 sec.

[rodrigoluis28]

muito legal esse video motocross das antigas.

[CR250R40]

I loved opening Dirt Bike/MXAction mags in the early '80s, eying the new bikes within, knowing local dealers will soon have 'em. The "suspension race" was so cool. It seemed every month some brand found ways to add another inch to its suspenders. Sittin' on 12" wasn't a seedy theater movie. I rode CR's, however, envied KX's, YZ's, RM's. Everything was so cool about '80s bikes & gear. I love retro gear. Today's jersey's are too busy, looking like gawdy tattoos, nothing stands out.

Old school.

[R3DBULLX23]

@CR250R40 haha.. im a newer school rider and i totally agree with you! my dad rode back in the day his first bike was a maico 440 at 13.. haha. i cant help but want to buy some old school gear and hop on an 80s model yz250 and just ROOST hahaha

[CR250R40]

I hope you get that retro gear and bike. I rode Honda's in early 1980s, but, the bike I feel looked the meanest was the 1980 YZ250G. It intimidated me.

Like many people I watched the 2010 Daytona SX. I greatly enjoyed it. The racing was fantastic. What I disliked was the gear. Nothing stood out. I also wish brands would keep to their colors, too.

Your Dad's Maico no doubt made him smile. Maico's looked fantastic. I became a fan of them in 1980.

Post some vids when you get your retro ride.

[rainmanx63]

nac nac at :50.

[txkid123]

That was great ! This was probably a promo that was played in Kawasaki dealerships

[coincutter]

That brings back memories. I used to race an 1980 and 1981 KX 125. In 1980 KX was the best to me. I think the RM 125 in 81' was the better bike tho.

[SkeeboDa1]

@coincutter yeah in 1981 Suzuki RM 125 was #1. I think they had it in 82 as well, I think Kawasaki came back to #1 in 84 and 85, I had an 85 KX 125 as my first big bike and that thing was a beast.

[brentging]

The narrator sounds like he's on N2O.

[illman76]

Nah, I stole his helium :)

[Jasong9573]

Kawasaki's UniTrak was very similar to FullFloater and both had too many moving parts but were both excellent. God the 80's were so great. Bikes were changing so fast. Now the 2010 big four are all so similar (sans Yam's backward engine), they even have near identical rear suspension linkage. And that linkage is really the same concept as what my 1986 KX125 had! Green rules.

[husky500cr]

I remember going to the motorcycle shows and watching these videos. Thats when the bikes were advancing a lot in one year. Cool stuff

[NcalBiker]

Has anyone seen Malcolm Smith? Where could he be... Great piece of video. Gawd, look at all that nice new factory equipment, and no padding...

[fullspectrum1971]

That was great! I wanna go back to 1981!

[jstrunck]

@fullspectrum1971 So do I!

[hyperpunjabi]

@fullspectrum1971 to bad i wasnt alive back then i was born in the late 90's so i dident even get the best of the 90's sucks oh well i guess ill try to live life to the fullest now lol

[JOEDIRT332]

awesome, kawi has and will always be the best

[pressrolls]

To the poster of this video, it isnt late 70's. It is 1981.

[blobo123]

haha the narrator sounds like the narrator in the slasher clips in the middle of quentin tarantino's roadhouse movie....

this clip must have been before the advent of suzuki's full floater suspension (1981) , which blew away the all other single-shock rear suspensions, including the uni-trak...

[pmay222]

suzukis full floater had soo many linkage bearings it always had slop and too much freeplay in the rear end.... good footage tho....seemed better then...its all getting a bit too serious nowdays

[husky500cr]

They reason why Suzuki stop making the Full Floater it cost the factory to much to make it. It is still consider one of the best suspension made. Just think the shock was being compress at the bottom and the top and the shock was basically floating in the frame.

[kxsteve]

great post Thx..

3:20 LOL.. back in the day..

[toecutter1919]

Thank you for posting a message.

It is extremely interesting.

I, too, am riding kawasaki.

[EpiphoneMaster1234]

this reminded me of sex-ed haha

[keravankauhu]

SHOCK & AWE!!! SIX STARS!!!!!!...who´s the child molester doing the talkin?

[disyokerr]

Kawa , great bikes,

I stil in love with honda sorry. then yamaha and suzuki.

Kawazaki is been only for north america, and europe, no latin america

[motonole]

I've ridden and raced all 4 Jap bikes, and now KTM. The Suzukis were the only bikes that gave me trouble.You reall DID have to spend 2 hours working on it to ride for a hour

[2stroke1971]

GREAT! The narrator was actually a 6 foot, 300 pound bull frog! Heh heh...

really though, awesome video

[9175753]

What a top vid, this gives me inspiration to get my kdx175 out this summer. Thanks for posting.....

[pursang]

Thanks for posting - can't get enough of these old productions. Got a kick out of hearing the term "trick" used in its propoer reference!!! Also nice to see some real terrain and not manufactured X games supercross ridiculousness.

[kdx83]

thankyou for posting this vid. i was thinking about selling my kdx but youve made me love it even more. and everything they said about the power and the unitrak is true even on the 250.

[beebe50]

you sound like a hippie.

[kdx83]

i got a 1983 kdx 250. and im only 15 but i love it im slowly doin up and gettin it to respectable status its mechanically good but cosmetically not flashy. it keeps up with modern day 450s in fire trails .

[mikerm250]

love those old bikes.i had a 79 klx 250.kaw first try at a 250f for mx.they stopped production in 80.kaw brought the klx back years later as a 4 stroke trail bike.

[typesurfer]

"...unlike a desert-sled in disguise..." lol

[corizone123]

haha holy moly am I old now! I'm sure I remember this commercial from a Saturday mornings in the late 70's. Awesome! My first bike was a Yamaha DT80 Enduro. I don't recall the vintage but maybe '75-'78.

[GreatBritainRob]

Ha! This vid is my main inspiration for riding my KDX220R on the Hafren Enduro next week.

Hahahahaha! Wonder if i can match the voice over on my vid. Well have to find some dodgy 70's style porn film music to add to it aswell.

Brilliant.

[plasticine86]

Lol.

[benmagoo7]

COOMENTY IS ACE

[DP3219]

Wow, did I love that. The KDX footage brought back a lot of memories.

Like to let all the KTM riders know.... there was GREEN long before ORANGE!(well, it was white back then)

[Barsopen1970]

gotta love vintage MX ... though my fav's were the 82' & 83' Kawasaki's, i loved all brands from mid 70's to the mid 80's...and they looked damn good too, as well as being reasonably priced, unlike today's over the top ripoff prices.

also back then makes seemed to keep with their own traditional team colors, now it's freakin pink-purple-orange-blue god knows what + 4 stroke MX'ers, sorry i can't grasp that one.

[joshmx28]

Did you ever ride a new thumper? They are pretty good, although i would love to get a vintage bike and race some vintage races and see what being a real man is all about.

[maicojames]

As a 40yr old who has spent more years racing vintage than modern, I encourage you to grab a bike and go VMXing. ..not sure if it makes you more of man, clearly the modern mx takes balls to do the jumps and all. Try a 75-77 model bike-they turn like a vintage bike, but supsension at 9" travel is a world better than the 7" front and 4" rear of an earlier era bike. didn't like the new thumpers myself. MJ

[Inky261]

cool! 5*

[yamit465]

Great video

Thanks for posting.

Kwacks forever

Skuli

Iceland

[vlmcross]

nice voice , haha :)

[comp688]

whats with the pedophile voice?

[vwjetcar]

Whats with the pedophile anouncer voice??

[koupscycleshop]

That has todo with the audio quality during transfer. These videos are old and this was the cleanest we could get the audio.

[vwjetcar]

I'm just saying... It's a good vid none the less..

[DordogneAnglais]

I think the whole thing is running at about 90% speed, hence the very slow voice. Sped up 10% the video would be great.

[turtlemann14]

ha, my kaw klx250 from 79 is still running great

(although i am in the process of changing frames)

[sjames117]

Jeees those were the days eh...to bad i wasn't living during them lol..looks alot different compared to today...

[gavaccess]

Fantastic video, brings back alot of memories - I was racing back in 82 - 83 and there was alot of 79/80 kwacka machinery around, it doesnt mention the endless kicking the bikes needed to get them running tho! And that guy obviously made a living doing voice overs for horror movies 'telephone killer' stylee in a later life! Great fun film and thanks koups for a great reminisce!

[Giminey]

Sounds to me like someone got dusted by a Kawi to me..LOl

[yz250fr4]

kawi's sucked back then