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That is sick!!! My first proper bike ( aside from a brigs and stratton engined mini bike) was a 1977 XR 75. What a great bike!!! My dad was a diesel mechanic and had bunches of gas cans in the back of his truck.. I was careless one day and ran diesel full in the bike.. NEVER Quit. I went to a KX80 after that as I started racing.. Man.... I remember DG.. Again that bike is sick!
When i was a kid, I had an sl70 and used to race it against the xr 75's back in the day... I was always Sooo envious of the kids who had these!! this one is crazy primo shape, just wow!
My cuz had a tricked out XR75. Almost as nice as that one. I loved the DG stuff and it had fox air shocks. Your bike is sic. My first bike was the brand spankin' new 1980 CR80R when I was 13. That bike meant so much to me, I'll die happy because of it. Man, I liked hearing your bike. Thanks!
I had a friend who raced dirt bikes, when he changed to a high class, he sold me his xr-75, That bike changed my life, Living in the country was fine,, I had a blast on that bike.
We just did a complete 78 xr75 restoration using Xr Mini Racers engine kit . It's now a 110cc it rips Jeff Ward pipe fox shocks sweet. Uptown Motors Coloma Michigan
One gorgeous 1978 Honda XR 75. Beautiful Bike. Bravo for the amazing Kaplan Restoration, amongst so many amazing restorations of yours. Great bike for a kid to learn how to ride on.
Believe it or not Susan Perkins' (Miss America 1978) sister Brenda taught me how to ride a motorcycle back in '77 on a XR 75 and about a couple years later Dad bought me a like new 1977 model from a friend of the family's in '79. It had two exhaust pipes with it, the stock quiet one and one similar to this one, loud and proud and the quiet pipe didn't stay on very long, lol. My best friend in Trenton, Ohio had a Yamaha 100 Enduro when I met him and I had the XR. I used to take mine over to his house and we'd ride his yard(they had 3 acres) and the fields around their property and we'd cut through the farm fields from time to time and go to Big T (similar to Tasty Freeze or Dairy Queen) and get Big T burgers and a fry and listen to the jute box. Those were the days, early 80s and us kids could get out and rip it up without much of a worry back then, I dearly miss it!
Beautiful, I always lusted after one of these as a kid, but we never had the dough for toys like that. The only thing that is wrong with this bike, in my mind anyway, is that some kid is never going to be sitting in the saddle tearing it up like it was designed for, great bike thou, I love it.
My dad bought me a new one in 1978. If I'm remember right he paid $453 for it. I bet I put 100k hard miles on that thing. I wore the cylinder completely out. Dad took it back to Honda and they rebuilt it and bored it to 90cc. It was a blast then. It would hit 59mph going down hill
Pretty awesome to see a CZcams channel doing reviews and rides of old classic MX bikes. Incredible works of art and its wild to see how far technology has brought us... keep up the good work and thanks for the videos guys!!
know that bike is small but you're a big dude man! Beautiful bike my cousin had the XR me and my brother had the c r a world of difference in power and speed
So awesome!! My first bike I had and learned to ride was a 78 XR75. My mom and step dad got it for my 7th birthday! My step dads friend who was an auto body tech painted the original grey plastics and tank honda red.
That's a really nice little XR,looks like a backyard Supercross track bike they used to race back in the 80's.Some of those guys would spend crazy amounts of money to build a XR just to race on backyard tracks.Theses where adults that were racing theses little bikes Not kids.Guess they were living their dream of racing Supercross.If only on backyard tracks.No kid is going to Appreciate how much time and money went into making this bike.Maybe some kids that had rich parents could afford to build them bikes like this but definitely Not your average family.This Special XR should be in a museum or some place special.
KAPLAN Cycles you've outdone yourself this time an 88 big bore kit for this magnificent piece of history is insane. I'm 30 now have been riding since I was five it's been Honda xr the whole time xr 70 grew into an xr 100 skipped the 80 I always wanted the next biggest at 14 I got my first 2 stroke it was a completely restore 79 Cr 250 elsenore the broke second gear dad got it for 1,000$ n had that fixed in no time absolute beast for a 14 Year old at a buck 45 it was a 🚀 💯 I sold that bike to a guy in California for 5 G's bought an my current bike is a 05 xr 400r wouldn't trade it to any 450 out there xr we're just legendary best machine Honda made you can't hardly kill an xr #KAPLAN Cycles #Honda forever
There were a lot of those around when I was growing up. I had a YZ and my friend had a RM and that helped us stand out. Those were good bikes though, loved riding with those guys who had them.
That is so beautiful! My first dirtbike was a broken down 1988 XR 75. I was 9 and my friend was 8, and we worked hard to get it to run and eventually did. But!.... we used a tire inertube as the intake coupler, and it caught on fire! 🔥 lol 😆 great bike 🚲 👍
That bike is trick. I like the way he changed the bottom of the frame where the footpegs mount. That was one of the down falls of the XR -75. If you rode hard they would end up bending downward. I never liked how the pegs mounted to the cases. The honda XR-75 is a bike that made a lot of kids happy.
With the big bore kit and bigger carb. I would be curious to know what the hp/torque numbers are over stock. I fondly remember the first year xr-75 a buddy had that routinely kicked my butt riding a ct70.
It’s so cool to see one of these my dad was born in 68 and said he got one of these around 10 years old from Santa so probly this exact model year or around there I love your videos and the bikes you show case
W O W ! ! ! My 1st. bike when I was 8 years old 1979 XR 75. Mine was nothing like that beautiful machine. I had a Supertrapp and header, n I thought it was cool, hahaa that one there is a work of art!!!
1979 1st year xr80 I bought one new. 1977 was the modernization with lay down shocks 5th gear added 3 more cc's I think more front end travel and better frame geometry ,side covers,front fender they were all great though and ran forever.
I had a 1975 model with the grey tank. Bored out and had a racing pipe on it. Everybody else had bigger motorcycles so I had to compensate with riding skills. Woundup breaking the frame right beneath the gas tank. Welded it back together and kept riding. I love two- Strokes but man what great times I had on that 1975 Honda xr75. My next motorcycle would be a 1976 Honda CR125 Elsinore.
@@skip741x3 yes indeed, drastic change in power delivery! I lived on a long dirt road across from a creek with very few houses and woods all around. One day I heard something like I had never heard before echoing loudly through the pine trees. I rushed to the front door to see what it was and somebody came by on a 1974 Honda CR125 and he was standing up on the foot pegs with his legs outstretched and the front wheel in the sky and shooting a rooster tail like I had never seen in my life. He was probably in fifth or sixth gear and disappeared out of sight standing on the wheel pegs and pulling the longest wheelie I had ever seen. I ran out to the road and it looked like it had been plowed for as far as I could see. And that was my first smell of castor oil. I waited right there because I knew the road was a dead end and he would turn around and come back by. He stopped and I discovered what a Honda Elsinore was. It was 1974 and I was 10 years old. I owned a Honda Z50 a and a CT trail bike 70. I felt like I had discovered something that nobody else knew existed. Bruce Lee and the Honda Elsinore ruled my world in 1974. Both represented explosive extreme power that I would enjoy the rest of my life. But discovering them at 10 years of age was beyond jaw-dropping. I had a Z50, trail bike 70, xr75 and finally the 1976 CR125. Later in life I had a chance to purchase a Honda xr250r at a great price only to have somebody steal it while I was getting flooded. I am now trying to get a 1986 Honda CR250 running. Sorry for the long winded story, just traveling back down memory lane and long hot summer walks, camping out in tree forts that we built, and swimming in blue holes, Creeks or whatever we can find.
Ooohh fkyaaa the best pit bike ever. If you couldn't wheelie all u had to do was borrow ur buddies XR75 and bam u were a wheelie monster . love it... I'd give my left nard to ride that for A few minutes.
Im 18 my first bike was a 1975 xr75 the thing had less than 100miles factory even the oil in the crank and trans it was great i ended up swapping the motor in a go kart
Yes....remember these well....the 10 yr kid that lived down the street got a brand new one and let me ride it from time to time....those DG pieces were the bees knees back then too ! So how much do ya charge for a 500$ bike ???
Absolutely gorgeous bike just got one of these recently and would like to do something very similar Is there any possible way you could send me a list of the companies and also part names
I had one of these for a pit bike but it was really tame bone cold stock .I always felt a lil left out well my dad would killed me if I put a scratch on it and frankly I would have been sick at my stomach.but I would have killed to of had a ttr 90 or klx 110 to race during the pit bike races.
I tried starting mine but it wouldn't go. I drained the carb and tried starting it multiple times, couldn't get it to go. Mechanic told us it was just flooded he said to never use choke. Any advice?
Take off cover to the magneto, crank engine slowly and watch the points open. You can slide a piece of sandpaper in through the holes, let points close on it, then pull.
123antres sorry we have not listed it yet so there is no final auction number it's going to go up either tomorrow night or Sunday for a one-week auction we just got so busy prepping for the Brewfest I couldn't get it listed
Had a 72 xr75 Grey. It was my first bike. This brought back some memories.
That is sick!!! My first proper bike ( aside from a brigs and stratton engined mini bike) was a 1977 XR 75. What a great bike!!! My dad was a diesel mechanic and had bunches of gas cans in the back of his truck.. I was careless one day and ran diesel full in the bike.. NEVER Quit. I went to a KX80 after that as I started racing.. Man.... I remember DG.. Again that bike is sick!
When i was a kid, I had an sl70 and used to race it against the xr 75's back in the day... I was always Sooo envious of the kids who had these!! this one is crazy primo shape, just wow!
They had such incredible minibikes/motorcycles (and music) back in the 70's and 80's!
I owned one in 91 I was 15, man I loved that bike, the memories
My cuz had a tricked out XR75. Almost as nice as that one. I loved the DG stuff and it had fox air shocks.
Your bike is sic.
My first bike was the brand spankin' new 1980 CR80R when I was 13. That bike meant so much to me, I'll die happy because of it.
Man, I liked hearing your bike. Thanks!
I had a friend who raced dirt bikes, when he changed to a high class, he sold me his xr-75, That bike changed my life, Living in the country was fine,, I had a blast on that bike.
We just did a complete 78 xr75 restoration using Xr Mini Racers engine kit . It's now a 110cc it rips Jeff Ward pipe fox shocks sweet.
Uptown Motors Coloma Michigan
michael braamse what comes with engine the kit? I bought my JB pipe from them im in socal not far from xrmini shop
I had an XR. I am 48 now and still have the burn scars on my right leg. Nice build you guys!
I had a Freud that had a 74 XR 75. Sharp looking bike. It went pretty good for a little 4 stroke and sounded cool to boot.
My riding buddy, when I was a kid, got a brand new Honda XR75! I was so jealous! What a awesome bike!
I love the way you appreciate bikes, you really are a legend
its pretty for sure, but a bike like that deserves to be rode like its your last day on earth.
One gorgeous 1978 Honda XR 75. Beautiful Bike. Bravo for the amazing Kaplan Restoration, amongst so many amazing restorations of yours. Great bike for a kid to learn how to ride on.
Believe it or not Susan Perkins' (Miss America 1978) sister Brenda taught me how to ride a motorcycle back in '77 on a XR 75 and about a couple years later Dad bought me a like new 1977 model from a friend of the family's in '79. It had two exhaust pipes with it, the stock quiet one and one similar to this one, loud and proud and the quiet pipe didn't stay on very long, lol.
My best friend in Trenton, Ohio had a Yamaha 100 Enduro when I met him and I had the XR. I used to take mine over to his house and we'd ride his yard(they had 3 acres) and the fields around their property and we'd cut through the farm fields from time to time and go to Big T (similar to Tasty Freeze or Dairy Queen) and get Big T burgers and a fry and listen to the jute box. Those were the days, early 80s and us kids could get out and rip it up without much of a worry back then, I dearly miss it!
My second dirt bike as a kid, after a Honda Z50! Loved my XR75!
Me too. Sold .y z50 for 1000 dollars
Beautiful, I always lusted after one of these as a kid, but we never had the dough for toys like that. The only thing that is wrong with this bike, in my mind anyway, is that some kid is never going to be sitting in the saddle tearing it up like it was designed for, great bike thou, I love it.
agreed, always wanted one.
My best Friend got a new Honda every Christmas , I cut Lawns and cleaned gutters to get mine and it was worth it!
My dad bought me a new one in 1978. If I'm remember right he paid $453 for it. I bet I put 100k hard miles on that thing. I wore the cylinder completely out. Dad took it back to Honda and they rebuilt it and bored it to 90cc. It was a blast then. It would hit 59mph going down hill
It's genuinely a piece of 70s art..would look fantastic in any arena...all the best from England..
That bike was $595 new and was the dream of every kid loved motorcycles!
Dang a 110 now cost less I think
@@BigBad21 yeah, that 595$ was in 1978, thats somewhere around 2,500$ in todays money
Tommi Jalonen I know and a 110 is somewhere around there
The '77 YZ80D was 495.
@@BigBad21 yeah, you can get those 110 for surprisingly cheap
Pretty awesome to see a CZcams channel doing reviews and rides of old classic MX bikes. Incredible works of art and its wild to see how far technology has brought us... keep up the good work and thanks for the videos guys!!
I had an 82 xr80...great bike, still riding bikes today
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know that bike is small but you're a big dude man! Beautiful bike my cousin had the XR me and my brother had the c r a world of difference in power and speed
NEUTRAL DROP what was faster the xr or the cr?
@@mikerafonemusic6177 the cr....was def faster
So awesome!! My first bike I had and learned to ride was a 78 XR75. My mom and step dad got it for my 7th birthday! My step dads friend who was an auto body tech painted the original grey plastics and tank honda red.
That's a really nice little XR,looks like a backyard Supercross track bike they used to race back in the 80's.Some of those guys would spend crazy amounts of money to build a XR just to race on backyard tracks.Theses where adults that were racing theses little bikes Not kids.Guess they were living their dream of racing Supercross.If only on backyard tracks.No kid is going to Appreciate how much time and money went into making this bike.Maybe some kids that had rich parents could afford to build them bikes like this but definitely Not your average family.This Special XR should be in a museum or some place special.
KAPLAN Cycles you've outdone yourself this time an 88 big bore kit for this magnificent piece of history is insane. I'm 30 now have been riding since I was five it's been Honda xr the whole time xr 70 grew into an xr 100 skipped the 80 I always wanted the next biggest at 14 I got my first 2 stroke it was a completely restore 79 Cr 250 elsenore the broke second gear dad got it for 1,000$ n had that fixed in no time absolute beast for a 14 Year old at a buck 45 it was a 🚀 💯 I sold that bike to a guy in California for 5 G's bought an my current bike is a 05 xr 400r wouldn't trade it to any 450 out there xr we're just legendary best machine Honda made you can't hardly kill an xr #KAPLAN Cycles #Honda forever
There were a lot of those around when I was growing up. I had a YZ and my friend had a RM and that helped us stand out. Those were good bikes though, loved riding with those guys who had them.
Brought mine back in 78 brand new worked my butt off for the bike . the memories
That is so beautiful! My first dirtbike was a broken down 1988 XR 75. I was 9 and my friend was 8, and we worked hard to get it to run and eventually did. But!.... we used a tire inertube as the intake coupler, and it caught on fire! 🔥 lol 😆 great bike 🚲 👍
Wow brings back great memories...I had the 72 mini trail 50...3 speed automatic man I remember having a blast on that thing great times
Man I gotta make a trip up there from Atlanta to shake your hand!! Just sweet music and memories that bike. Love your channel!
That bike is trick. I like the way he changed the bottom of the frame where the footpegs mount. That was one of the down falls of the XR -75. If you rode hard they would end up bending downward. I never liked how the pegs mounted to the cases. The honda XR-75 is a bike that made a lot of kids happy.
My buddy had one I had a Rupp we had nothing but great times back then ! Always wanted one !
I wish I was able to afford to take part in projects like this. The gold wheels and swing arm are the cherry on top.
With the big bore kit and bigger carb. I would be curious to know what the hp/torque numbers are over stock. I fondly remember the first year xr-75 a buddy had that routinely kicked my butt riding a ct70.
That sound. It makes me smile.
It’s so cool to see one of these my dad was born in 68 and said he got one of these around 10 years old from Santa so probly this exact model year or around there I love your videos and the bikes you show case
Lived on this bike as a kid❤️
Same here.
same here
still have mine. got it in 3rd grade
james c
Wow. I buy and sell too much. Never hold on to anything long. Riding an 07 Low Rider now.
@@jamesc6137 That's great that you were able to hang on to it. I wish I still had my '71 CL 175.
Man........ brings back memories...that's the bike that got me into riding back in 83 lol i know im getting old
All us kids central Pennsylvania had XR 75 S IN EARLY 80S
Dirt bikes and teenage boys spell trouble my teenage years were spent on a farm and a police station in TEXAS
The first motorcycle I ever rode....ive been looking for an xr75 to buy
Sweet bike as a boy my mate had a 76 with metal side plates
My first Honda. Absolutely bullet proof !!! I had the DG exhaust but it stayed on the right side.
W O W ! ! ! My 1st. bike when I was 8 years old 1979 XR 75. Mine was nothing like that beautiful machine. I had a Supertrapp and header, n I thought it was cool, hahaa that one there is a work of art!!!
mine too, 1975. i was 9.
My first bike was a 85 xr100 brand new. It had the mono rear shock that I thought was so cool. It was just so underpowered I bored of it quickly.
'79 was an xr 80
1979 1st year xr80 I bought one new. 1977 was the modernization with lay down shocks 5th gear added 3 more cc's I think more front end travel and better frame geometry ,side covers,front fender they were all great though and ran forever.
Gorgeous. More memories!
Be criminal to ride it.. Absolutely stunning!!
Doesn't get better than that love you're Chanel
I LOVE IT.HAD ALL OF'EM.
DESTROYED THEM ALL.
🤣🤣
I had a 1975 model with the grey tank. Bored out and had a racing pipe on it. Everybody else had bigger motorcycles so I had to compensate with riding skills. Woundup breaking the frame right beneath the gas tank. Welded it back together and kept riding. I love two- Strokes but man what great times I had on that 1975 Honda xr75. My next motorcycle would be a 1976 Honda CR125 Elsinore.
what a little beast the cr125 would seem after the xr 75! those early elisinores had that sudden on off powerband and quite a hit when on the pipe
@@skip741x3 yes indeed, drastic change in power delivery! I lived on a long dirt road across from a creek with very few houses and woods all around. One day I heard something like I had never heard before echoing loudly through the pine trees. I rushed to the front door to see what it was and somebody came by on a 1974 Honda CR125 and he was standing up on the foot pegs with his legs outstretched and the front wheel in the sky and shooting a rooster tail like I had never seen in my life. He was probably in fifth or sixth gear and disappeared out of sight standing on the wheel pegs and pulling the longest wheelie I had ever seen. I ran out to the road and it looked like it had been plowed for as far as I could see. And that was my first smell of castor oil. I waited right there because I knew the road was a dead end and he would turn around and come back by. He stopped and I discovered what a Honda Elsinore was. It was 1974 and I was 10 years old. I owned a Honda Z50 a and a CT trail bike 70. I felt like I had discovered something that nobody else knew existed. Bruce Lee and the Honda Elsinore ruled my world in 1974. Both represented explosive extreme power that I would enjoy the rest of my life. But discovering them at 10 years of age was beyond jaw-dropping. I had a Z50, trail bike 70, xr75 and finally the 1976 CR125. Later in life I had a chance to purchase a Honda xr250r at a great price only to have somebody steal it while I was getting flooded. I am now trying to get a 1986 Honda CR250 running. Sorry for the long winded story, just traveling back down memory lane and long hot summer walks, camping out in tree forts that we built, and swimming in blue holes, Creeks or whatever we can find.
This was my first dirt bike at 7 in the early 80's when I was living in the U.S.! Great memories!
Love your videos and your passion
For 75cc's that is one hell of a bike
Love the xr 75s
Where did you find it?
Awesome condition espcially with all the trick bits..
Id rather have that bike than any new equivalent.. Amazing build
An XR75 was my first bike when I was 5 in 89 or 90.
My 9yr old would love that XR 70
Ooohh fkyaaa the best pit bike ever. If you couldn't wheelie all u had to do was borrow ur buddies XR75 and bam u were a wheelie monster . love it... I'd give my left nard to ride that for A few minutes.
i had a 78 xr 75 in Med Hat.. glory days
Super cool! 🏁
Удивил первый раз вижу 👀 эту модель мотоцикла!!!
This is a bike you buy and use it as a showpiece in a garage. If you wanna ride one of these dirty get a used one. 👌🏽 PERFECTION!
Beautiful!
Totally awesome!
Im 18 my first bike was a 1975 xr75 the thing had less than 100miles factory even the oil in the crank and trans it was great i ended up swapping the motor in a go kart
Absolutely beautiful
That swingarm reminds me of a 79 rm 125 swingarm.
Yes....remember these well....the 10 yr kid that lived down the street got a brand new one and let me ride it from time to time....those DG pieces were the bees knees back then too ! So how much do ya charge for a 500$ bike ???
Please do a 1983 Honda XL 80s next
I miss those they were fun
Absolutely gorgeous bike just got one of these recently and would like to do something very similar Is there any possible way you could send me a list of the companies and also part names
I had one of these for a pit bike but it was really tame bone cold stock .I always felt a lil left out well my dad would killed me if I put a scratch on it and frankly I would have been sick at my stomach.but I would have killed to of had a ttr 90 or klx 110 to race during the pit bike races.
What type of blower is that in the background attached to that mower? Looks like it has an 18HP Vanguard on it. What a beast!
Don’t know if you guys have the paint codes for Honda. I need 1976 xr75 and 1979 XR80 paint codes. Thanks so much
Beautiful! deptford honda yamaha dealership has one of those on there roof on inside though nothing like this .
What a beautiful machine
Second bike my dad bought me when I was a kid. Wish I still had it
I still have mine after 40years. My kid it riding it soon.
Riding the snot outa my cousins trail 70...we dreamed about this talking between laps on our cow pasture "trail" we timed each other on.
Awesome bike!!!!
lovely bike but mate marvel studios are looking for the new wolverine, you got it in the bag dude. Hollywood here you come?
That looks like its brand new as alot of your bikes
That’s a beauty! My first motorcycle was a silver & black 1975 Honda XR75. My dad bought it used in 1979 when we lived in Warner Robins GA.
You find some great bikes I live in New York and I'm looking for an older style YZ80 or CR80 think you could help me
What number of production is it my buddy has number 5 out of 77 just curious
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
That was my first dirt bike with a clutch and
My first bike with a clutch also!
Same
I have for sale an xr75 1977 in its original condition. I was supposed to do it, but there is no time and it stands still
Great Bike to learn on,very tidy.
a grand custom shocks and couldn't get a conform pair of black grips? how come?
I love this bike, but it would have been better with the original gas tank cap. Other than that it's amazing! Honda is awesome!
My hubby's first bike in Canads an XR 75
Bad ass bike very cool 👍🏻💯
Sweet!
Guys whats your opinion on colored grips....im torn......tacky or cool ????
Awesome XR 75, Do a 74 KD 100 next
I tried starting mine but it wouldn't go. I drained the carb and tried starting it multiple times, couldn't get it to go. Mechanic told us it was just flooded he said to never use choke. Any advice?
Take off cover to the magneto, crank engine slowly and watch the points open. You can slide a piece of sandpaper in through the holes, let points close on it, then pull.
Yeah find a new mechanic because yours doesnt know what hes talking about. Carb is most likely dirty and clogged with old gas that turned to varnish.
Clean the carb.check points, and maybe kill switch
Couldn't find the bike in the auction link? What did it sell for ?
123antres sorry we have not listed it yet so there is no final auction number it's going to go up either tomorrow night or Sunday for a one-week auction we just got so busy prepping for the Brewfest I couldn't get it listed
Where can i buy a tank for this
Sounds like a xr70r even tho the crank is angled different
And the price is??
Love it! Sweet lil classic XR, I know Kap (like me);is a big dude, but why is it smoking like a cold 2-stroke? Is it the new motor build?